THERE is a constant repetition of releasing and enacting publicity for housing proposals, hotel and business premises to be built on a greenfield site west of Barton in a misguided anti-green plan by Oxford City Council (June 17).

It is like the unwelcome and very annoying, indeed crazy, obsessive mania of a mindless boring authority trying to brainwash a population with its nightmare fantasy based on a terrible programme of nature destruction.

Driven by heartless economic progress, the plan is driven home by Oxford City Council, witless to the point of psychological harassment, bearing in mind the awful pollution of both noise and atmospheric kinds that the Barton housing estate would be made subject to.

The use of construction vehicles and lorries would also mean, so wrongly, houses being covered by grime, dust and dirt to the terrible inconvenience of Barton residents. Reverberations from heavy lorries would rock homes.

The green fields west of Barton with their trees, hedges, flowers and blackbirds and Bayswater Brook should, as a pleasant asset of nature, be regarded by any normal and right-thinking person as something in itself as worthy of appreciation, praise and preservation.

It should be kept away from the money-mad institutional insanity of road builders and housing commerce and their peculiarly narrow outlook on life, with aberrant government and perverse councils devoid of compassion for nature and the natural.

In a mad rush for commerce, Oxford City Council built private housing at Gloucester Green, showing it has no genuine desire to create affordable housing and worsening the plight of the homeless with its nasty two-faced attitude. Countryside protection should come before squalid economic greed.

The Barton West Plan should be scrapped to preserve natural normality.

DAVID SCOTT

Bayswater Road

Barton

Headington

Oxford