Sir, - Can I say how disappointed I am with the services we are supposed to receive with money paid out in Council Tax.

I live in Broadwater Road, my husband and half- a-dozen other men and women take care of much of the garden as they can.

This year, however, grass cutting is dreadful. We have never seen our lawns looking like this. We are ashamed of it. Also the garden within our fences are tatty - smelly overgrown and pathetic.

We also have a Gas Board barricade in our back garden. It has been there since last October, right outside a tenant's kitchen window. This barricade is doing nothing - it's just been left to rot.

I do hope that someone from the council reads this letter. The gang that did the lawns last year had it down to a fine art, let's have them back.

Please let's have some decent gardeners back again as well.

We live in the centre of Romsey. People will get a very wrong impression of our homes and gardens if this slapdash work continues.

Yours etc,

K M Pitman,

15 Paimpol Place,

Broadwater Road,

Romsey.