Ron Wyatt's letter, Waste has gone (Oxford Mail, October 30), indicates that even he may be less than fully informed about matters relating to his golf club at Waterstock.

It was not my evidence at the planning inquiry which the inspector described as "unreliable".

On the contrary, the inspector agreed with my submission that intensive tipping of bricks and rubble had been under way at the golf club for many months before the clay sub-soils from the motorway services area first began to be dumped - and that the tipping had been profitable to Wyatt Brothers.

This was confirmed when Wyatt Brothers's accounts were published some years later saying their income included the proceeds of "hardcore tipping at Waterstock Golf Club".

I cannot recall saying that I estimated 570,000 tonnes of waste had been tipped as Mr Wyatt claims but, of course, any estimate is subject to inaccuracy.

More significant than the accuracy of my estimates, however, is that the public inquiry was offered no figure at all for total waste tipped by the only people who would know exactly - Wyatt Brothers.

They were paid to take it and would surely have had exact records of the thousands of lorry loads which came in.

Even now, Mr Wyatt describes the quantity as "less than 100,000 tonnes" (as though that wasn't very much) without saying what it actually was.

It is not clear what Mr Wyatt means when he says that "all the waste has gone, except that which has been allowed to remain", or who allowed it.

However, moving even half the amount Mr Wyatt mentions would involve about 2,000 lorry movements and it would be surprising if we had failed to spot that.

It is surprising, too, that Mr Wyatt claims that Donald Steel, his own golf course architect, was not involved in the detailed survey work for the course, particularly as the extract from Jim Arthur, which Mr Wyatt quotes and who, he says, "did have an input", appears to be from a letter from Mr Arthur to Mr Steel which begins "Dear Donald".

In fact, Mr Steel designed the original layout for the full 27 holes years before the tipping began.

Mr Steel says: "There was never any proposal from us to alter the levels of the land, other than minor levelling, for any of the holes."

Nevertheless, intensive tipping across the whole site followed.

Mr Wyatt says in his letter that this was to raise the level of the land to "ensure all year round play".

But Mr Steel described the original drainage as "perfectly adequate" and said: "Imported fill will make good drainage infinitely more difficult to achieve."

Club members could have been playing the nine-hole course, designed by Mr Steel, on the original lie of the land years ago, and we would have been spared 17 months of tipping, and a further nine years of land covered in waste as the legal actions, initiated by Wyatt Brothers, to avoid the consequences of flouting planning controls drag expensively on.

MICHAEL TYCE Chairman Waterstock Parish Meeting