Sir – On May 3 you reported that the county council had spent £1.85m expanding the traveller caravan site at Redbridge.
In case no one else has asked the same question: don’t we think someone should explain why it takes that much of our money to provide just nine serviced caravan pitches which, according to the Oxfordshire County Council spokesperson, might be empty for half the year as the travellers, well err... travel? Would it not be preferable for our money to have been spent building at least 15 affordable houses in which the occupants would live for 12 months of the year, year in year out? Have we lost the plot completely? I will be fascinated to know the answer — assuming the council has one.
Harry St John, North Leigh
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