Sir - What an incredibly stupid idea the proposed eco-town at Weston-on-the-Green is. You take a motorway junction that is already operating beyond its capacity, and build loads more houses nearby.

This will (a) add considerably to the traffic problem and (b) prevent any kind of proper long-term solution such as widening the A34 to cope with the sheer volume of traffic, or a full cloverleaf junction at Junction 9 of the M40 as all the land needed will have been built on. Genius!

Who wants to live in houses blighted by the noise and pollution from a dual carriageway and a motorway and maybe a railway line too? There are already regular water shortages in this area most summers, where are these houses going to get their water from?

The A34 and junction 9 of the M40 need some serious investment to ease the misery of their users, not a stupid new eco-town plonked there.

Building a train line into Oxford is suggested as a way of getting the new residents to and from work. As well it might, provided of course they work within walking distance of Oxford rail station or could find the time for a train journey, a longish walk to the bus station then a bus journey to their place of work. I can't see many people who work at the JR Hospital, Brookes University, BMW, AC Neilsen, or any of the science parks bothering with this.

Especially not if they have to drop their kids off at school on the way.

The reality is that most people who lived in such a development would use their cars to commute to work.

Personally I don't believe Oxfordshire should have any more houses built anywhere until the crumbling infrastructure is improved.

Stephen Littleboy, Dry Sandford