Sir – As the leaves fall from the trees in the streets of East Oxford, planted to enhance our environment, so up spring the To Let notices.

Notices for lettings in August 2013 are already in place in November 2012.

Free advertising, which no doubt attracts long-held deposits for the coffers of greedy letting agents. These notices also signpost many student dwellings, which are often vacated in holidays, for the attention of burglars.

The notices are a minor irritation, but nevertheless they are a bit of a blight. Let’s encourage ‘To Let notice dieback’, at least for another six months, and have them taken down once a property is let.

Mike Kent, Oxford