I FEEL your article on the dangerous alley in Blackburn (LET, July 13) made the situation seem far worse than it is. I use this ginnel every day and have done for many years. True, it is dark, but hardly overgrown. The large tree in your picture is in someone's garden.

It also seems very far-fetched for the police to suggest that it is the worst alley in their whole Eastern Division.

If that were the case, a better police presence would solve a lot of the area's crime at a stroke!

Sgt Dunnagen says that better lighting and higher fences are not really an option. How does he know?

They have not been tried. Furthermore, do you really think that all the burglars are going one way?

There are criminals on Higher Croft as well as Roman Road and houses do get burgled here as well.

I don't doubt that there is a problem of vandalism and yobbery, but it's a problem for us too.

The closing of the ginnel would greatly inconvenience a lot of people, especially since the Day and Nite shop on the estate closed some months ago.

Still, there are only a few of us left on this rubbish dump. Who cares about our inconvenience?

I wouldn't mind betting that if the resident's vote had gone the other way, with 129 in favour of closure, there would not have been any further consultation.

Perhaps the more up-market residents of Lytham Road just want to be separate from us lesser mortals.

Name and address received.