IT IS a highly doubtful notion that the Barton West scheme would bring benefits as eschewed by planning consultant Mr Comerford, (Oxford Mail, July 20).
Plans for a gym and restaurant are misleading, as destruction of allotments and a nature park would cause deteriorated conditions for vegetable and flower growers, the natural world and nature-friendly public.
Newly constructed roads do not bring benefits to displaced nature.
A mad scramble for short-term housebuilders’ profits by the likes of Mr Comerford does not serve a much-needed cause of sane environmentalism and proper long-term protection of the natural world, which should not be spoiled and ruined for the sake of a peculiarly manipulative economics linked to the construction industry.
Mr Comerford’s false belief that he does not want to segregate communities hides a socially divisive policy of Oxford City Council of playing up to construction firms in a foul game of deceit and trickery.
Oxford seems to be becoming a victim of ‘build syndrome madness’.
This was also exemplified in the M40 motorway extension from Oxford to Birmingham andnow the HS2 rail link proposal in a mad rush for industrial progress.
This attitude is based only on money-making, that the countryside should be sacrificed as though a mere plaything of construction firms and political mindless environmental rape and vandalism, and motivated by economic greed.
It is time to spend public money on ‘re-greening’ the M40 motorway extension to create a good environment, not on the weird nightmare of Mr Comerford and the Barton West scheme.
DAVID SCOTT, Bayswater Road, Barton, Oxford,
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