I read with interest your two reports in the Chronicle (January 2009) about the rat infestation in Feltham High Street.

On June 28 last year I wrote to you regarding the Feltham People's Centre, saying the community hall has been left to rot and will become a rubbish dump.

This has now become true, as since before Christmas bags of rubbish have been thrown over the fence and left to rot.

Yes, there are rats running around in the rubbish at the centre.

I see in the report on January 29 that Hounslow Council preaches that it is the obligation of the owners of the property to control the rats and mice on their land.

The land at the centre belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow, so can I ask them to practise what they preach and clear the rubbish and rats from the area?

LES CURRINGTON, Shelson Avenue, Feltham.