You asked in The Issue whether David Cameron was right to support the Cogges Link Road proposal.

I agree with the well-written piece by David Condon. But, in contrast to his well-articulated views, the comments made by Ian Hudspeth were a mockery of the truth. He mentioned one single meeting in March 2008 “when not one objector turned up to say anything”.

I apologise for my absence as I was in southern Germany at the time, but is Mr Hudspeth really pretending to be deaf to the thousands of protests which have been raised on other occasions over the past 25 years and pinning his response on just one isolated meeting?

I’m also not quite sure how Mr Cameron can claim to have always shared that view.

In 1983 when the Cogges Link Road was first proposed, he was still a student at Oxford University.

Would he really have been able to have taken time out from his studies (and perhaps from throwing bread rolls around with Boris and his fellow ‘Bullers’) to consider this issue? Somehow I doubt it.

The de-trunking of the A40 has opened up the far greener option of the Shores Green alternative. Perhaps it might be less convenient for Ian Hudspeth to drive to Sainsbury’s from his Bladon residence, but an alternative which, according to the county council’s own figures, would secure 85 per cent of the relief to Bridge Street, which the Cogges Bypass would bring – but without the massive increases in traffic in Station Lane, which the latter would cause.

In addition, it would save the allegedly cash-strapped council some £5.5m.

N J Wilcock, Manor Road, Witney