WEST Oxfordshire District Council’s planning process is the biggest sham in local politics.

The entire procedure is totally loaded in favour of the applicants, as the council has proved beyond doubt.

They don’t listen to people’s objections and concerns regarding the damage these decisions inflict on people’s communities. I ask, why do we, the taxpayer, put up with this blatant abuse of power?

Those responsible should be sacked and their wealthy estates split among the people whose lives they ruined with bad decisions. They should practise what they preach.

KAREN JONES Thorney Leys Witney