Sir — Planners need to revisit and think this matter through!

The proposed new Westgate car park has no more parking spaces than the present facility, which is a very tight fit for present cars.

More shops, equal more people, more cars and increased traffic congestion on an already limited city centre road network which struggles to cope with present traffic volumes. Destination department stores, like John Lewis and the new centre, when built, will need to attract more shoppers to be viable.

Big ticket items, as sold in John Lewis, require use of a car, they cannot be carried by bus and not everybody will elect to have them delivered. So do they really think, by having penal parking charges and no more parking space, shoppers and their cars will disappear?

Indeed not. While an increase in traffic is regrettably, inevitable, if cars have nowhere to go, due to deliberate high charges and limitation on parking space, this will make congestion and pollution in the city centre, significantly worse.

David Stone, North Oxford