No room for complacency

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – Last week, English Heritage issued a statement about conservation areas, drawing attention to the fact that many are seriously at risk, because of neglect by the local authorities who have the duty of declaring and maintaining them.

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Dangerous anarchy on streets

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – I am the person who supported the planned Controlled Parking Zone in the Magdalen Road area, in the meeting that Peter Lewis recounts (Letters, July 2).

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Scant attention

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – Oxford citizens are currently complaining bitterly about pedestrianisation schemes in central Oxford, and car parking schemes in the suburbs. This comes down to the same problem.

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Lack of coherence

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – A packed meeting of the Iffley Field residents’ association exposed the limits of local democracy in our city.

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Considerable expansion

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – You report (June 18) that Brookes University has submitted new plans for the redevelopment of its Gipsy Lane site which reduce the height of the main building. This modification does not go far enough.

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Expansion is the issue

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – There have been several letters in The Oxford Times, and an article in Private Eye, regarding disquiet felt at the insensitive expansion of Oxford Brookes in Headington.

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Dominating brother

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – You report that Oxford Brookes University believe they have ‘met the residents halfway’ in reducing their 25-metre high building to 22 metres. By any rudimentary mathematics, halfway would be a reduction of 12.5 metres.

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City’s lost charm

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – It is not very many years since the great campaigns to get better accessibility for the disabled won several triumphs – public places (including restaurants, pubs, etc) have now established accessible toilet facilities; lifts and other aids are much more frequent. Legislation has dictated many of these improvements.

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Give our ears a break

7:00am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – Oxford is increasingly becoming a café society and is all the more attractive for it.

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Convenient solution

7:00am Thursday 9th July 2009

Sir – It was refreshing to see, in your coverage of The Great Public Lavatory Controversy (July 2), due attention being given to a subject which concerns universal human needs — as opposed to the usual narrow debates about cycle paths and bus gates. Indeed, I should think that the European Court of Human Rights will have something to say if the council presses ahead with its proposed lavatory closures.

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