SO THE idea is to knock down everyone’s back fence and create a kind of communal allotment?

In principle, it sounds innovative and well-meant, but it’s almost certain some in the East Oxford community where it has been proposed will be firmly opposed.

It is up to those behind the initiative to reassure everyone what it will really mean. And not to be too disheartened if it doesn’t win a resounding vote of approval.

After all, good things take time.