AS a local resident, I would like to respond to the letters in last week’s Packet regarding the dog control order on our beaches.

Acknowledging the right of all groups in a society to have equal access to the facilities that their own community has to offer would be the action of a fair-minded and ‘enlightened town’, as opposed to a ‘retrograde step’. 

Castle Beach was selected by ‘those people’ because it is fully tidal, not out of some perceived ‘fear’.

The beaches at Pendennis have no facilities. I’m wondering what the writers would have dog owners do when they themselves need the loo? No, don’t answer that…

As to the plea that campaigners ‘consider our children’, I would say that children will continue to be very well provided for with plenty of dog-free beaches to enjoy. Nobody has suggested it be otherwise. I would like to add my own plea that you now try to show some consideration to the needs of other sections of our community. Or is that an ‘utter cheek’?

Bruce Hobbs’s star letter highlights the importance of blue-flag status, but I would ask, important to whom? A blue flag beach that I can’t use isn’t the best use of my share of the council tax budget.

As for dog owners being willing to pay, aren’t we doing that already? Over 1,000 signatures is more than ‘a few’ people, and these include the elderly or disabled dog-owners who can’t scramble miles over rocks to reach the water. How might forcing them to walk further ‘be a good thing’? 

There are four beaches along this stretch of coastline. We are talking about dog owners being allowed to share the least-used section of one of them. Those who don’t wish to share that small patch will have plenty of alternative choices. Dog owners, who have contributed for years to the upkeep of beaches they are then banished from during the hot summer months, will have at least one tiny option available to them. How is that not fair?

K Morgan, 
Falmouth resident