Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes: Those of us who go boating and keep small craft at Coronation Park for sailing or rowing, or just toddling up the river, are now being told that they must take such craft away in September so that district council can make good the boating area. Which seems strange, because when we all went through the great long-overdue slipway event, during which most of us lost out on the most-needed facility ever to a bunch of tree huggers over a non-existent worm, we were allowed to merely move across the park for a bit. I have long thought that the South Hams Council has lost its way with its inner cabinets and officers, who no longer respect the wishes of our elected ­councillors, and certainly not those of us who shell out a small fortune in community charges to keep them employed. And now here we are yet again, the victims of various officers' lack of tact, knowledge or consideration for others, who coincidently are their ­customers, while as ever being confrontational when there is no need. We have an election in a ­couple of weeks and I would ask those who I will be voting for to arrest back the power from the officers and reinstall common sense and a sympathetic listening attitude to the needs of those who the district council is supposed to serve. Or to put it another way, we need those officers to do what we need them to do, and in a manner that the majority would like to see it done, and not announce to some of us with just a hand launching trolley and a proven unalterable ­disability to take your boat away to some magic la-la land in the clouds until they tell us that we can come back onto what is our park and not theirs.