DEAR EDITOR - A recent letter was right to draw attention to Bromsgrove District Council's inaction on the unsightly fly-postiong problem prevalent in and about Bromsgrove town centre, and other local areas.

I am aware that over the last 18 months or so hundreds of illegal posters of diferent descriptions, shapes and sizes have been removed by local people from lamp standards and fences in the area of the M42 island at Lickey End, but the nuisance continues.

I last raised the issue with the district council over 12 months ago and was advised that unauthorised posters were contrary to local planning regulations, but that the council did not have the resources to do anything about it.

When I made the point that one or two well chosen prosecutions, such as the three-piece suite people, might have a beneficial effect, I was told that the council did not have the resources to do that either.

One has to ask what is the point of electing a district council which has no intention of upholding its own planning regulations, and to wonder how many other regulations are deliberately ignored by officers of the council

Perhaps all the parish councils in the area could agree to pool some of their meagre resources, the sum raised to be matched by the district council, with a view to at least doing something to address the issue.

So far as Lickey End Parish Council is concerned, that ought not to present any kind of problem since it has at its disposal monies which so far it has not spent, and apparently has no intention of spending, for the benefit of the residents it represents.

F Howard,

Alcester Road,

Lickey End,

Bromsgrove.