Sir – The article published in last week’s Witney Gazette with the heading ‘Housing bid likened to ‘military takeover,’ regarding the dossier by Brize Norton Action Group, deserves some comment.

The letters column of your newspaper has over the past four or five years seen a steady stream of correspondence, often by the same correspondents, which frankly can best be described as a campaign of misinformation.

Those people who live in Carterton who tried to respond in a sensible way have been rubbished.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but it seems as if the members of the Brize Norton Action Group believe they have a greater right than anyone else.

In fact, the BNAG have not played a straight bat. Rather than Brize Norton being bullied by Carterton, it has often been the reverse.

In 2013, when there was a West Oxfordshire District Council consultation on the draft Core Strategy, Brize Norton residents were quite intimidating at roadshows in Carterton and complaints were made about these residents trying to get the people of Carterton to sign up to their view.

In your report Caroline Ramsey, the relatively new town clerk, says “we haven’t even asked for this housing.”

I have to correct that. Carterton Town Council has for a long time had a policy of growth, because it wants more housing as a way of obtaining monies from developers so the infrastructure can be improved in Carterton.

The east of Carterton proposal was the result of the invitation to developers from the town council some years ago.

The vast majority of people living in Carterton support the eastern site, if we have to have more housing.

I urge your readers to write to members of the development control committee before the district council's developmnet control committee meeting on Thursday, October 9, expressing their support for the east site and not the west, which Brize Norton residents seem to be supporting for all the wrong reasons.

Richard Clements, Jackson Close, Carterton