Marywood House in Leiden Road has now been boarded up and looking derelict for seven years or more and no houses or flats built on it.

This valuable piece of land could be used to the advantage of local people.

Perhaps a library, swimming pool and youth centre, incorporating the existing health centre . There would be plenty of parking.

But no, I think maybe this brown land will be sold once again for student accommodation, which we are already overcrowded with.

Blackbird Leys is also experiencing problems over the proposed pool, with their children’s football pitches under threat. Surely this can’t be right.

Let’s keep our pool at Temple Cowley and revamp it.

The area is local to most people, while Blackbird Leys is out of the way and central Headington and Cowley have nothing, especially Wood Farm and the Lye Valley area.

Congratulations to Clinton Pugh and his campaigners for their hard work on the St Clement’s car problems.

There has always been a car par in St Clement’s for as long as I can remember.

That said, let’s keep the car park and the business will thrive.

PATRICIA PENDERS WHITE, Peat Moors, Headington, Oxford