WHAT is this obsession with growth and you must get on the property ladder when you’re young and free?

How can we agree on the unmet housing need? Are we building houses that people will want to live in in 50 years’ time?

Why is our Green Belt under threat? Can it be expanded and improved for future generations?

How about an Oxford Loop with continuous lanes for scooters, walkers/runners and cyclists giving easy access to nature-intense traffic-free enjoyment, say with puncture/maintenance stations serviced at busy times by a local cycling shop.

My father said that when he was a student in the 50s hitch-hiking back to Bristol (to see my mother), he would often get to the top of Cumnor Hill before the first car appeared.

Today's Letters

Look out from the top of a double-decker travelling down the harried hill today and watch beautiful trees being felled and new houses and extensions being packed in, right up to the A420. He tells me, ‘some people can’t stop’.

At Vale of White Horse District Council’s cabinet meeting on August 7, someone sensible from Sunningwell said: ‘We need to think again and go back to first principles.’ Amen sister.

Perhaps the brain-boxes and whizz-kids in our uniquely small and sociable city can think of some new and inspiring options so that future generations appreciate and admire the decisions we are making now?

S REDSTON

Oxford Road,

Cumnor