THE "safety concerns" conceded by Lake Macquarie City Council in your story ("Overdue shave for jungle", Lakes Mail, August 13) only partly explains one of the reasons I refuse to mow council land fronting an allotment I own on the corner of Yambo and Station streets.

Insurance issues, public liability, red tape, and the fact similar areas at Warners Bay and Toronto are regularly mowed by the same council, are a few others.

As I previously highlighted, I attend to the mowing of areas fronting all other properties I own.

Unlike the Yambo/Station street corner, these are not in high-pedestrian traffic zones.

It is heartening that the safety and liability issues I raised have at last been recognised.

Furthermore, this council needs to stop treating Morisset as a second-class, low-priority area.

- Peter MacIntyre, Morisset