Sir – To your correspondent K. Del Nevo (Letters, May 31), who urged opening up the Trap Grounds in North Oxford to encourage increased access by children, I would point out that the site, not overlooked by houses and featuring unfenced ponds, streams, and ditches, is hardly suitable for such access, if unsupervised.

Visits by local schoolchildren, organised in partnership with the Friends of the Trap Grounds, are another matter. K. Del Nevo would be welcome to join us and would soon learn that the wildlife of the site consists of far more than the occasional squirrel: lizards, water voles, newts, and glow worms for starters; the full list can be found at http://trap-grounds.org.uk/wildlife.

To your correspondent Lorna Logan (in the same issue), I would say that the uproar at the annual general meeting of the St Margaret’s Area Society, which led to a vote of no confidence in the committee, was regrettable.

But the chairman brought the wrath of the majority of attenders upon himself by refusing to produce a copy of the society’s constitution, and by blocking all discussion of the potential damage to wildlife posed by the society’s unrepresentative demands for an additional entrance into the Trap Grounds.

It was these actions which provoked the uproar at the meeting.

The disruption was regrettable, but some things are more important than wine and nibbles.

Catherine Robinson, Oxford