BECAUSE the Forest council could  determine the Homes and Community Agency plan for the Northern Quarter on September 24. I will briefly report on the miles of 6ft high fencing and shallower screen that has been dug into the ground and the buckets that have been augured into the ground to capture and eradicate all God's creature that  crawl or fly around the area.

We have already witnessed barriers against the miners' memorial, the bats and the great crested newts.

Now it's the turn of the Commoners, public and all living creatures. Roe deer are being trapped and left threshing about to exhaustion.  Is this the final solution against every creature left on the Northern Quarter? Isn't this wildlife cleansing on a grand scale?

Last week I invited two colleagues who serve on the licensing committee, which is involved in animal welfare, to accompany me to witness this evil  first-hand. I unbolted the nuts holding the clamps supporting the high fencing and gained access. (I do not encourage anyone else to follow my example.)

Although only briefly inside because my colleagues had another appointment to attend, we witnessed miles of double buckets and felt reptile canopies –   perhaps as many as a thousand.

I plucked out as many of the creatures as I could from the traps.  We also witnessed a small lizard desperately trying to get into the bucket trap.

While we tried to drive it away, it appeared to be attracted to these traps,  as if the sponges deposited in these traps had been scented.

I retain  my faith in the simple notion of love thy neighbour and all living things, but I find increasingly that other people's morals are a matter of expedience and self. This applies to local government politicians, governments, the higher hierarchies of the police and church alike.

All of these groups have been implored to investigate what is going on at the Northern Quarter. Now surely it is time for a public inquiry into this unadulterated evil.

– Andrew Gardiner, Ruardean.