Sir – Your correspondent Joanna Dennison (Letters, May 2) has either not read very carefully my letter (April 18), or she is misrepresenting it.

She seems to think that I would evaluate the effects of the university flats on the view of central Oxford by looking only in the direction of Wolvercote. Of course not!

Although walking towards Wolvercote, I was “stopping frequently to look back at the view”.

At Wolvercote, I studied the view of Oxford very carefully, and indeed sent the editor photographs taken in 2007 and 2013 for comparison (hence the mention of 2007 in the printed letter).

However, I made it clear that I was using the usual path on the west bank of the River Thames, like many people who only occasionally visit this part of Oxford, and so I do not state that for anybody (in her words) “walking on Port Meadow from the Walton Well Road approach” the flats will scarcely be noticeable.

It was perfectly clear that I crossed the river by the footbridges; the intended point was that Jericho is a built-up area, and the flats are not particularly noticeable as one leaves Walton Well Road.

Equally, if one returned along that path from Wolvercote, there would be a stage where one would have to resign oneself to the idea that one was coming back to Jericho, which certainly has its charms, but it is not Radcliffe Square.

Roger Moreton, East Oxford