Hounslow Council is committed to the Going Green Agenda and so it was pleasing to read Peter Thompson's leader column in Hounslow Matters about planting 1,000 trees.

However, there is another side to the coin which Cllr Thompson should also be addressing if the council wants householders to use their gardens to grow plants and vegetables.

This is the problem of gardens that are left to run wild, with trees and shrubs that cut out sunlight and roots that take moisture, making it therefore nearly impossible to make any use of your garden.

It is not that I want to stop trees and shrubs being planted,but I do believe that some control over what happens as they thrive needs to be considered.

I would invite Cllr Thompson and Mayor Boris Johnson to pay me a visit and see at first hand what this uncontrolled growth to trees and shrubs does to the household that is trying to be green.

This is a London-wide issue of people not considering others, just look at the number of front gardens that are overgrown with car wrecks and all other manner of eyesores.

Come on Hounslow Council, lead from the front in helping those in the community that want to make something of their back gardens.

P M HARRISON Boundaries Road, Feltham.