contrary to your report (Oxford Mail, March 6) where you claim that local residents are satisfied that EF’s plans to expand its facilities at Cotuit Hall in Pullens Lane will not cause many problems, we would like to make it clear this is absolutely not the view of neighbours such as ourselves in nearby roads.

Having seen the outline plan, we are strongly of the opinion that the proposed development is too intensive for the size of the site.

To create a boarding school for 400 pupils, aged 16 to 18, in a quiet residential area is neither appropriate nor realistic.

This is the second development in Pullens Lane by EF, who will then have around 1,000 students on two extremely dense sites.

A development on such an intensive scale will inevitably have a significant impact in terms of vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the narrow private roads that lead to and from Cotuit Hall, while the size, mass and height of the proposed new buildings will have a major visual impact on the area and will seriously impact on some immediately adjoining properties.

The nature of the design also means that the level of noise which will invariably be generated by such a large pupil population will create previously unknown levels of noise pollution, not just during normal school hours but also in the evenings and at weekends.

Over the coming month, residents are hoping to be able to work with EF to produce proposals which are more acceptable and which do not have such a negative effect on the area.

DAVID ARMITAGE ERYL AND ANTONIN BESSE and other residents of Pullens Lane, Harberton Mead and Fielden Grove TESS BOSWOOD chairman, Fielden Grove Residents’ Association