Through your letters page, I would like to thank the hundreds of people who helped organise street parties in Oxford this summer.

I am aware of 54 parties this year – 26 of them last weekend, as reported in Monday’s Oxford Mail. We believe about 4,000 people attended.

Oxford is now the UK’s ‘street party capital’ with more parties per head of population than anywhere else since 1977.

I hope there will be even more next year.

Street parties are a great way to meet your neighbours, huge fun and one of the most effective ways of bringing communities together.

Thanks also to the Oxford Mail for its extensive reporting and to Oxford City Council for its support – particularly by simplifying road closure processes and for employing an enlightened approach to the need for insurance.

Richard Bradley Coordinator, Oxford Streets for People, Oxford Civic Society, Beaumont Road, Headington, Oxford