I don't like dispersal zones any more than Chris Boswell (Oxford Mail, November 6), but I have to admit that the area around The Oval at Rose Hill, Oxford, is safer and more pleasant to walk through since various Asbos were served and the zone has been put in place.

The key problem is the lack of facilities for young people on the estate. Teenagers like to hang around with friends, and the only place they can do this is in empty spaces between rows of housing, some of which adjoin the dispersal zone - for example, Williamson Way and Thames View Road.

Over the next four or five years, these empty spaces will be filled with new housing so there will be even fewer places for groups of young people to go for any form of social activity. But along with the redevelopment comes developers' money for the estate.

At last! An opportunity for us all, young and old, to come up with ideas on what new facilities we want to see on Rose Hill.

Let's make sure we report existing antisocial behaviour to the relevant authorities, then we can focus all our energies on spending this money to get quality facilities that everyone on the estate can feel proud of.

We deserve it!

RUTH WILKINSON, Thames View Road Rose Hill, Oxford