So the eco-town bandwagon rolls on. Government spin puts eco-towns in the news, but is the eco-label just a smokescreen for builders' profit?

The proposed eco-town at Weston Otmoor near Weston-on-the-Green may spoil a wonderful nature reserve teeming with rare flowers, butterflies, orchids and many rarely seen birds, but this could also be the case for the other 15 potential eco-town sites shortlisted for Britain.

The so-called greener style of housing may be a positive move in some respects, but the ecological damage that may result is alarming, with extra roads built through existing wildlife areas and increasing our already congested roads, with the A34-M40 junction being a possible example (God forbid).

With 15,000 homes planned at the Otmoor site, with potentially every household owning a car, that's an awful lot of extra traffic.

This scenario makes a mockery of the Government's eco-spin.

The lack of an existing infrastructure, which has to be built from scratch when a eco-town is built, is a major factor and fatal flaw in its green credentials.

The untold ecological damage could be catastrophic, with many sites pencilled in for flood plain land.

Hasn't the Government got it into its head that building on flood plains is a bad idea?

In addition, who will live in these new proposed green-style homes?

More immigrants from all corners of the globe!

Britain is becoming overcrowded and congested with traffic, and our cities and towns are in danger of being joined together in one enormous concrete jungle.

If not careful, our precious Green Belt may be eroded beyond repair in 20 to 30 years' time.

There is a real need for affordable housing in the Oxfordshire region, but not by compromising our Green Belt land.

I appreciate that some characteristics of the eco-policy have real worth, but if building a new town at Otmoor destroys a vital wildlife area which is essential for our well-being as well as the rare species found there, then the intended "golden opportunity" of affordable greener homes is a fallacy.

DAVID TINSON Moorland Road Witney