Sir – As a Carterton resident your correspondent, Paul Hughes (last week’s Gazette) must surely know that the proposed Carterton East housing development will be located within 500 metres of the Aircraft Servicing Platform at RAF Brize Norton.

This is where all aircraft movements begin and end and where engines are tested for prolonged periods.

It will also overlook two large hangars in use 24 hours per day. The present sports field is also likely to be replaced by a new hotel complex for service personnel.

The adjoining Shilton Park development has already brought major flooding problems to Brize Norton village. That is a reality.

There are many valid technical objections to the Carterton East development (noise, air and light pollution, sewerage, flooding, coalescence, access to Carterton town centre, traffic, etc) but I would prefer to ask Mr Hughes the same questions we are asking West Oxfordshire district councillors who will shortly be voting on this issue:

1. Would you want to live there?

2. Would you offer financial help to a son or daughter to invest in a property there?

If, as I predict, the answers to the above are ‘no’, then Carterton East should be dropped and an alternative site found where young families can live in a more peaceful environment.

Keith Beckingham, Manor Road, Brize Norton