A splendid letter from Christine Oliver (Have Your Say, November 16).

With work in progress in Park Lane in Wimborne, the time for opposition is past. The application for town green status is surely a dead duck.

Unfortunately people in unelected quangos can fill their time to promote their strongly held views with the cost of some of their manoeuvres landing on the council tax payers’ doorstep.

An election was held recently for a local council member.

The instigator of this town green did not put his name forward for the backing of the electors.

Many councillors work tirelessly for the town, often to endure criticism, sometimes there is praise.

Cllr Anthony Oliver, his wife, and many helpers young and old have, over the years, transformed the town to stand high in the annual Britain in Bloom contest.

The youngsters have appreciated their efforts and very little graffiti appears.

I believe that it is an adult who has chosen to use a Latin phrase to deface private property. What an example to set.

William Blake wrote: “Great things are done when men and women meet, this is not done by jostling in the street”.

JACK LOVELAND, Parkwood Road, Wimborne