Sir – Can we all please hope that peace will break out over Oxford University’s plans and hopes for new medical research facilities in Headington. As Professor Williams James (a cyclist, by the way) has pointed out, what is hoped for in Headington equates potential health breakthroughs and treatments which will benefit all of us, directly or indirectly, here in Oxford, in the UK, and beyond. Of course trees are important, of course well-established parkland is important, of course people in Headington and beyond are concerned about traffic flows and disruption, but it can’t be beyond the wit of all of us to work together for the greater good. Oxford University is not engaged in some sort of subterfuge to get what it wants! Reasonable people can surely be reasonable to one another and not see red when green can be the colour of the day. Car access can be reduced to a minimum to the new ‘campuses’ and goodwill be the norm. Otherwise, we will be all the losers, here in Oxford and globally.

Bruce Ross-Smith, Headington