A FEW weeks ago the council was asking for people to suggest ways in which it could save money.

Well, here’s one way. They are talking about building 800 houses in Barton. So I suggest that when they are built, 800 families are taken out of private accommodation funded by the council and put into new council properties. That would save mega bucks.

Most people in private accommodation will sit on the dole, because if they got a job they couldn’t afford to pay the high rents.

P HOWARD, Headington, Oxford