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Wildflower meadows and the right to roam

<span>Photograph: Lynne Evans/Alamy Stock Photo</span>
Photograph: Lynne Evans/Alamy Stock Photo

It is wonderful to read that there will be wildflowers growing along road verges (Wildflower meadows to line England’s new roads in boost for biodiversity, 1 December). However, it is shocking that there is any new road-building at all – more countryside desecrated, more car trips, more environmental pollution. Road-building has to stop, and funding should instead be spent on maintenance of existing roads, making cycle highways – and creating wildflower meadows. The environment has to be at the heart of every area of government spending.
Chris Osman
Oxford

• Wildflower planting along new roads sounds lovely, but birds and insects avoid roads and the polluted air will diminish them. It would be better not to build new roads and plant hedges along existing ones.
Dr Linda Murgatroyd
London

• Letters from celebrities are all well and good (Johnson urged to extend public’s right to roam over English countryside, 30 November). But a revival of the traditions of the mass trespass would be a lot better.
Julian Batsleer
Manchester