Sir — Your letter columns are full of complaints about Oxford Brookes University, most recently about the traffic congestion it produces, although we have also heard a lot about the pressure it creates on accommodation and how it threatens green spaces in and around the city.

Perhaps it is time to recognise that Oxford is not big enough for two large universities, especially since both appear bent on expansion.

Brookes has said it plans to replace most of its buildings; would this not be a good opportunity to move out of Oxford altogether?

Land would be cheaper in, say, Swindon or Banbury, or even Wheatley if they must retain the Oxford cachet. Other new universities have created a self-contained, efficient campus from scratch, in York, Guildford and Canterbury, for example, to the mutual benefit of all concerned.

The move would alleviate many of Oxford's urban problems in ways that endless and ultimately futile arguments about parking permits, traffic problems, housing shortages, loss of open spaces, and so forth, never will.

F Taylor, Headington, Oxford