SIR – While I am not at all surprised by Philip Davies narrow-minded, knee-jerk response to your story about the refurbishment of the traveller sites in Bradford, your opinion column hardly did much to really portray a balanced view on the matter, either.

The Council clearly has a legal duty to provide facilities to a particular standard to its tenants, and I don’t see why it should matter if those tenants live in a house or a caravan – they should still be treated the same.

What both the T&A and Mr Davies appear to have forgotten is that these sites house families – families who want to live their lives and to have a base for their children.

As a governor of one of the local primary schools that has children from these sites enrolled at it, I am aware of the difficulties that many of these children face.

Running stories that perpetuate myths about people from different communities does nothing to reduce these difficulties.

Simon Kemp, Woodview Avenue, Baildon