Not only is it doing its business in the wrong place but the wife's garden keeps getting dug up and we've found three dead native birds in our yard in the last few weeks.

If you want to have animals then take care of them properly. Don't let your cats or dogs roam the neighbourhood. If your dogs bark, train them or lock them in your house so they don't annoy all your neighbours.

I don't care if your animals go to the bathroom in your house as, after all, they are your animals, not mine.

- Name and address withheld

LAKE Macquarie City Council knows that the clear majority of residents want more, not less, community open-space foreshore land in Toronto.

During last year's engagement process about 80 to 95 per cent of written feedback via social pin point, survey and submission expressed concerns with council's Bath Street apartment proposal and provided positive suggestions for appropriate small-scale infrastructure to activate that section of foreshore.

These are in addition to 5200 signatures, recommendations from a 450-strong public meeting and a plethora of correspondence with council and media including well-founded arguments against council's plans.

Yet council refuses to acknowledge any problem with its proposal, will not consider the entire foreshore in their master planning, and defers engagement with the community until their plans are advanced to the DA stage. Why?

- Nico Marcar, Carey Bay

I COULDN'T agree more with Sue Burrough's complaint of the noisy music in nearly all areas of public places. ("Hear the call to revolt", Lakes Mail, June 20).

It's been my complaint for years. It's too loud, it's intrusive, it's irritating and works on the arrogant assumption that we all like the same sort of music.

I think it has something to do with a general fear of silence. Walk into many homes and you'll find the TV or radio blaring away - no one listening or watching - just noise. I too would would much prefer not to have to endure senseless noise in public places.

- Tony Lang, Wangi Wangi

I WRITE in response to the letter "Last show in town" (Lakes Mail, June 27). I would like to rectify the claim made that all companies offering cheaper transport from the peninsula to Morisset had closed. That is incorrect.

I am the owner of a transport business called DialALift. We have been operating for over a year now and certainly don't have any plans of closing. We operate seven days a week.

Our hours are 7am to 7pm, Monday through to Thursday, and on Fridays and Saturdays it's 7am through to midnight. On Sundays, we operate via bookings made at least 24 hours in advance.

We provide a lot of transport for many people in the local community, however we are aware that there will still be a lot of people who may not be aware that a local transport service is still in operation.

We provide local transport to shopping centres, doctor's appointments, clubs and pubs. We also provide transport to Sydney and Newcastle Airports, cruise terminals at White Bay and Circular Quay, and Hunter Valley wineries.

We are on Facebook and Google, so if anyone needs transport at a cheap rate then give us a call on 0466 157 576 for a quote.

We thank the community for their continued support, and the Lakes Mail for allowing us to set the record straight.

- Stephen Hudson, DialALift

Letters to the editor: A shut-out in Morisset (June 27)

Letters to the editor: Trees as oxygen farms (June 20)

Letters to the editor: Upset at Morisset club closure (June 13)