• OH no, yet more reckless spending on “experts” (£400k spent on experts for park revamp, August 11).

An all-too-familiar tale at Milner Square with a litany of landscaping errors by the council and its expensive consultants.

Our own residents’ consultation was completed within a week last year, showing that more than 80 per cent wanted the children’s play area to remain in the sunny south side and not to be transferred to a sunken, flood-prone pit in the north.

Meantime, the council is still assessing its consultations, from last year. I’m not a landscape architect expert, but I do know that having, as they do, the toddlers’ play area right next to the park gates is also just plain daft.

On the bright side, every three months or so we do get a council email cheerfully wishing us a good holiday and informing us that they are still assessing the design.

You may think you couldn’t make any of this up, but it doesn’t end there. The garden design experts can’t even tell the difference between toddlers’ and children’s play equipment, nor the shrubs they propose planting, with completely different plants identified with the same cut-and-paste image.

I hope the council has not been paying a monthly retainer to its design team, otherwise there will be little change from the £360,000 budget for a project going nowhere.

ROB LANGLANDS, N1