Sir – Everyone who loves Port Meadow is waiting anxiously to see whether:
1: Oxford University has the conscience to voluntarily reduce the height of its monstrous new residential blocks or
2: Failing that, see whether our elected city councillors have the courage to stand up to the university and insist. Having now seen the full report into this sorry story, it is entirely clear that the architectural drawings submitted when the university obtained planning permission were completely misleading in terms of the buildings’ impact and scale. Irrespective of whether this was an honest mistake or something more calculated, since everyone on all sides agrees that the buildings in their current form are a disaster, can’t we now just work together to put this right?
Jerry Moeran, Oxford
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