Sir – On reading through the draft Local Plan for West Oxfordshire, I find, unbelievably, that the district council is proposing to build on land at the back of Eastfield Road in Witney, knowing full well that Eastfield Road, Hailey Road and Cannon Pool all flood almost every year.

It has flooded here for 50 years or so and the council surely knows this.

Unless it is proposing to install a larger storm drain from Eastfield Road through to the River Windrush, then flooding will only increase in frequency and ferocity.

Tony Robey, Wenrisc Drive, Minster Lovell