Sir,-I attended Jason's Thames Landscape Strategy meeting, remarking how populist it was: three of his employers, two employees, four of the public, including me.

From the correspondence he must have learned the populace preferred their environment more natural than quasi.

If it were left to the populace, he rejoindered, even our quasi-natural environment would be razed to the revetments, putting into perspective his levelling of grass, shrubs and trees on ground not theirs, to open up the views from the river for two of the employers he schmoozed with.

What did he mean by sustainable? Though devised not to hinder economic development, sustainability is more his doing, something that can be kept going later...

Because if left to nature it will all go splat, eg the reduction of species on Ham Fields during the last ten years of neglect - identical with the Risbridger enhancement.

If I wanted to see what laissez-faire management amounted to, I could walk between The White Cross and Asgill House - where you're continually cropping the plants.

And look at the aits. They're going splat, all the trees dying at once, shearing off into the river to capsize Jason and his Argonaut.

Or perhaps you are worried that an unmanaged bough would fall on somebody in Ham Fields.

-John Cairns, Cambridge Road, East Twickenham.