I WAS saddened, when returning home from work last Wednesday, to find yet more trees felled around St. Ronans Crecent, adding to the desolate wasteland that constitutes as part of Mr Ian Laing’s award winning Lochore Meadows Country Park.

I can only speculate that the removal of this particular area of trees was in response to the petitioning of Ms. Rosemary Campbell, the ‘petrified OAP’ that the Central Fife Times reported on in September.

In this article Ms. Campbell admitted that the trees ‘do limit my daylight’ but assured that ‘it is not that which I am most worried about, it is them coming onto my roof. It would be best if they weren’t there.’

If such concerns were substantiated then I am sure all surrounding residents would join my partner and me in supporting Ms. Campbell in her plight to ‘rest easy without the fear of something coming through her roof.’

However, upon being assured by the surgeons on hand that the trees would only be trimmed, it was with great disappointment that my partner then watched the view from our window that we so greatly enjoy disappear before her eyes.

I do not claim to know the technicalities involved in such a job, and I also assume there are both safety and environmental issues that must be taken into consideration, however, I am unaware of any such issues, and here in lies the problem… Once again the residents of St. Ronans Crescent have been left in the dark while important decisions regarding our street are made by the powers at be.

At least now the barren view from our window is a more adequate bedfellow to the crumbling fences and overgrown weeds that surround Mr Laing’s side of our residential area.

CHRIS DI PLACITO,

St. Ronans Crescent,

Crosshill.