I ATTENDED a couple of Hoylake meetings where the overwhelming majority of residents in Hoylake want the beach to be a beach and not a field.

Currently it's a quagmire, a mixture of grasses, marshland, slime, stagnant water and debris.

Spring tides arrive once every couple of weeks and unless there's a storm that's only to deposit more debris - there is a climate emergency and there are strong arguments why Glyphosate shouldn't be used.

There is an alternative, it’s called Foamstream - it isn't a herbicide and it doesn't harm the environment.

The basis is that vegetation can be "boiled" above 57°C but only if the water used is maintained at that temperature.

The foam element in this process maintains that temperature by encasing the hot water until the process is complete.

It's not harmful to humans or animals and would be a perfect compromise, at least on the face of it - surely it's worthy of a test?

I sent it to the council, to David Armstrong and to Liz Grey among others to no reply.

The coastal advisory group Liz talks of only want a dune system and don't represent the views of anyone other than a small proportion of people.

Compromise and engagement is what is required here, so let’s talk about it.

If Glyphosate is the problem, there's an alternative.

If however, as I suspect, Glyphosate is the front to hide the actual issue, perhaps it's time for the council to come clean as to their actual plans?

You don't get anywhere fighting two completely opposite views, compromise is the only rational way forward.

Try and take the party politics out of the discussion, that doesn't work on a national basis and that’s only magnified on the Wirral with two or three sides constantly trying to point score against each other.

David Noble by email