CONCERNED Townie, if you look two pages before your letter you will read about more land being built on for homes.

How much more land will we townies take up before we want farm land to build houses on?

Hedgerows had to go to improve productivity of the farms or pay more for your food. Yes we have to look after wildlife but we have to find a balance. After all "we" are over populating this planet and something is going to get pushed out.

I go fishing when I can and would certainly miss all the wildlife we see, amongst them magpies, pheasants, rabbits, hares, adders, robins, owls, sparrow hawks and many more, even the cheeky robin that sits on your rod, pops on your bait box and then steals your maggots – they all make fishing for me.

If you have got any good ideas on how to stop the population growing, tell the Government, maybe wildlife would stand a chance in the future.

M W Wressell, Corporation Road, Grimsby.

CONCERNED Townie is once again blaming farmers for the decline in wildlife. I am sorry, for you have got it wrong again. I think you are basing your facts on just one small area and not the wider expanse of the Lincolnshire countryside, which is vast. I have lived in tied cottages and been all over and covered almost every acre of land at one time or another.

And in recent times I have still been to a big area and no way is wildlife being destroyed at the rate you say it is.

If you were to take a trip out to Wragby, East Barkwith way, Market Rasen, which covers thousands of acres of land, it is still unspoilt, as it was 50-60 years ago with every kind of bird and animal. Also the Trent Valley, off the Lincoln Grantham Road, not one hedgerow has been uprooted and the area is teaming with wildlife.

T Hall, Willing Way, Grimsby.

I AM enjoying reading the letter by Concerned Townie and the replies he is getting about the farmers damaging the countryside.

He tells us he is a local farmer's son. I wish he would come out in the open and tell us his name, we could then get a proper discussing going.

RH Borrill, Habrough.

The Telegraph says

Would it not make sense to target the dilapidated buildings which scar on our towns before building on green land?