What a breath of fresh air to read that at least one local authority is fed up with unauthorised building work being carried out by those who should know better.

The order given to Jim Nixey, former chairman of South Oxfordshire District Council's northern area planning committee, to remove a house he built on the site of a former reservoir at Chiselhampton (Oxford Mail, September 4) was welcome news.

Perhaps other district councils will follow suit.

Make these speculators do the same and if they don't, send in the demolition people or issue a hefty fine.

BRIAN LESTER, Pegasus Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford