She makes the point for a fence all too obvious.

The boy, one assumes, believed the area was public property, a mini five-a-side pitch; even his parents must have thought similarly if they never remonstrated with him as they watched from the window or retrieved the ball from the roofs.

My understanding is that Dalneigh Residents Association was kept up to date through the involved council department, then through the community warden initiative and possibly the three Inverness Central councillors over the last couple of summers when the matter was first raised.

Simultaneously, the other issue of erecting a perimeter fence to provide privacy and security that Rowan Road and St Margaret's Road enjoyed was broached.

A fence would deter encroachment of all and sundry passing by using the access path to the OAP door entrances as a shortcut; dog owners and weekend louts using the area as a urinal and worse; children and teenagers using the access paths as a cycle velodrome; even three-year-olds on mini-mokes (mini motorbikes).

I can understand the chairwoman wincing at the Soweto comparison to her area, but her failure to demand equality for the complex is a missed opportunity for the credibility of Dalneigh Residents Association.

Of course, communication to the chairwoman by the council and warden departments may have been misleading, since Highland Council seems determined not to erect a perimeter fence, not in the last two years, nor in the future.

I'm sure I speak for the other residents when I thank your newspaper for highlighting the fencing issue.

More importantly to the residents, your Leader acknowledgement that a wrong is being committed is a godsend to accountability.

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