I write in sadness and in hope that a local development can be stopped altogether at the back of Warren Crescent following Lye Valley Edge to the back of Heath Close.

From my balcony, on many a day, I have seen woodpeckers, wild deer and on one occasion a badger, and a few foxes. As I understand it, the development has been made smaller, but this is small crumbs to please some locals.

Apart from saying goodbye to most of these wonderful wildlife, the usual problems will come with this development: parking, which is already bad, and the loss of green space where the local kids play.

So what will these teenage kids do then? Hang around shops and so on. It's not rocket science. Fed-up kids cause problems.

I know that the local council (New Labour) is obsessed with filling in every bit of green space available in Oxford in order to stop building on Green Belt land. Wasn't it Labour who had a so-called great idea of building tower blocks in the '60s. Now, with great shame, they can't knock them down quickly enough, for example in Birmingham and Manchester. The list goes on and on. And now they are doing the same, but with three-storey flats and so on.

Please leave Warren Crescent, Heath Close and all the Edge Lye Valley alone. For once, New Labour council, do right with a little bit of wonderful open green space where you can see wonderful wildlife and kids (teenagers) play football and stay out of trouble.

FRANK CARRON

Heath Close, Town Furze, Oxford