So one side of Lambourn Road in Rose Hill, Oxford, is to be levelled (Oxford Mail, January 26).

A lot of elderly folk - some very old - face huge upheaval late in life.

How convenient - the council has discovered that the bungalows are on the verge of collapse after 45 years, just as developers are embarking on the 'regeneration' of the estate.

How convenient that Lambourn Road sits on the periphery of that development.

And, of course, it's mere coincidence that the bungalows are easily the lowest density housing on Rose Hill.

At the Ashhurst/Desborough junction, a subsiding block of council flats is being flogged off to the private sector.

An elderly couple I know in Desborough Crescent feel as if they are living in the middle of a building site, the woman displaying rare anger at a recent tenants' meeting.

If these bungalows and flats are on such perilous ground, how can anything be built in their place? Capitalism will find a way, believe me!

It doesn't end there. Rumours abound that the Scout hut and housing office are to close, providing yet more land for developers.

And how much of the playing fields will be encroached on by housing, when Rose Hill Primary is rebuilt? Rose Hill is being transformed by stealth, dismantled as a council estate, block by block, brick by brick.

Next up, the Howard homes, Rose Hill flats?

Of course, decrepit homes (if indeed they are) must be replaced.

But the scandal is that they're being replaced not with council homes, but with high density housing association units (higher rents, less security of tenure) and private homes. It's a disgrace.

JOHN GREEN Rose Hill Oxford