Sir – Well done to Tom Bowtell for highlighting the traffic problems which will undoubtedly arise if the north-east Didcot expansion of 2,000-plus houses goes forward. (Report, May 2).

Interestingly, in SODC’s latest edition of their publication Outlook, the two-page spread outlining the council’s core strategy for the next 14 years has only one very short passing reference to supporting transport links, and, when I contacted the council some time ago asking about traffic levels resulting from new housing, their representative told me that this was up to the developers to sort out.

Another small bone of contention is that the recent exhibition for the public, showing details of the new north-east Didcot development, lasted a whole one-and-a-half days, so many people, like us, didn’t get a chance to visit it to discuss the plans.

We wait with interest to see what eventually happens, but I guess the result will be lots of new houses, and a few minor tweaks to the roads and maybe even a cycle track or two to appease the locals. And even longer traffic queues waiting to cross the Thames at Clifton Hampden and Sutton Courtenay.

Bob Edwards, Long Wittenham