SIR, Re: the article in last week’s Bicester Advertiser which gave more details about the so called eco-town on the northern edge of Bicester.

It must be painfully obvious to anyone who reads the article that the planners have no overall plan.

To quote A2 Dominion, the developer, spokesperson, “It’s too early to give exact outcomes for individual roads.”

To my way of thinking that means they, aided and abetted by Cherwell District Council, don’t know what the final outcome is even likely to be, and that, for a multi million pound development, is criminal.

You wouldn’t expect a ship builder to build a ship and then have to consider how he was going to get it into the water after he’d built it, or a car manufacturer not to have thought out how to get the passengers in and out until after he’d spent millions building the body, would you?

But here we have professional planners and council officers still undecided where to put the roads weeks, or even days possibly, before the first hole is dug.

It will be equally obvious from my address that I have a vested interest in the development and despite me asking the question a number of times I’ve yet to hear a reasoned reply from either faction.

My issue is with the certain and dramatic increase in traffic through the small village of Bucknell if or when the houses are built. Despite the occasional verbal platitude from a planner ages ago, it must be obvious that cars from the Aldershot-Gowell and Hawkwell village areas of the Eco Town will make a bee-line for the road through Bucknell to access the M40 motorway.

This quite peaceful village that I live in, and hope to spend the rest of my retirement in, will be very much like the fast lane of the M25.

It appears that no consideration is being given to us as the village is never mentioned in any of the ‘blurb’ from either source.

Will we be reduced to emulating Les Miserables and man the barricades, or should we just declare UDI and have done with it? My own preference is to cast the entire council and planning teams in a new movie entitled “Carry on Planners.”

If the traffic debacle at the town end of Bucknell road is anything to go by, it’ll be a dead cert for an Oscar next year. Come back Sid James, Cherwell needs you.

Bob Dixon, Middleton Road, Bucknell.