IN response to the letter singed Elton Vale Valley Committee (June 2). I’ve not “just” started to take an interest in the valley, seeing as I live here I see the flora and fauna every day and don’t need a “wildlife watch” to tell what’s there.

I know exactly what lives in the valley and would be destroyed if you put your plans into action.

More to the point, why have you just started to take an interest in the valley?

The valley has been like this for a least 100 years and the allotments have been there since the early 1900s.

All we have had is two letters, the first one stating that you were doing a clean up of your statutory allotment land and the second saying that the project had finished with the planting of apple trees. If you are a separate committee to the Diggle Lane Allotment Committee, why are you using their headed notepaper and website. As for me coming to meet you, how about you come to meet the residents? Stick to growing fruit and veg on the allotments and leave this undisturbed patch of nature alone.

Miss S M WarburtonHolcombe Avenue Bury