Leave Southfield Golf Course alone! David Manners (Oxford Mail, March 29) speaks as if it is OK to take any bit of green land to fulfil the need to build student accommodation for Oxford Brookes University.
He says that to use college sports grounds will cause colleges to move them out of town and encourage use of motor vehicles among students.
He then calls for the course to be used as a road to the Churchill Hospital.
Southfield is owned by its members. I am not one of them, but I have used the course.
Why should they be deprived of their property in such a manner? If anything reeks of Big Brother, this does.
Mr Manners also states that there are more golf courses than can be sustained by membership.
If that were the case with Southfield, it would be struggling, not thriving. That is another piece of evidence to support keeping it.
Oxford needs another 'lung', he states, then suggests the course be used as a wild or natural area.
If he saw my golf swing, it would confirm that wild is already there.
The suggestion that countless rows of little boxes on a hillside for students would make it natural, makes the mind boggle.
Chris Payne, George Street, Bicester
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