I have a green lane on my land, and I would be livid if some twat in a 4x4 decided to churn up and down it. It's a carefully tended grassy track between traditional earth and stone clawdd banks, and it would take only a few minutes of thoughtlessness from some driver to ruin. I take my Land Rover down there very gingerly a couple of times a year to bring new stones for the wall and to cart away brash from hedging, but that's it.

Having seen what off-roaders have done in other parts of Wales I'm completely against the notion of 'green laning' as a recreational activity. There are plenty of quarries and other areas of alrady despoiled land, so why not use those?

It's not just the lanes themselves that suffer - I've seen trees pulled down because some twat has a winch on his car and wants to try it out, walls demolished because someone has lost control (and even at four miles an hour, a couple of tonnes of car can demolish a 200-yearold wall that costs upwards of £180 a metre to repair) and pools of black, polluting oil where idiots have cracked their diffs or sumps on rocks (expensively, I hope). And that is typical of the damage that is ALWAYS done by farmers? You're talking through your hoop!

As for tyres - I've used enough Goodrich and Grabber tyres to recognise the tread patterns when I see them, and I've seen plenty of damage caused by those off-road tyres of choice. A spinning wheel will dig a hole whether it's got MTs or racing slicks, and that hole will be there until someone (not the off roader) gets round to filling it.

As has been said, just because a track is a 'green lane' and a right of way doesn't make it fit for idiots in 4x4s.