SIR – I have lived in Warndon Villages for many years and I don’t recall hearing anyone say they were bothered by the area’s name.

Other issues, such as litter, parking, poor public transport and road links with the rest of the city, maybe, but not that.

So as far as I can tell, there are no “growing calls” for the area to be re-named as Councillor Andy Roberts suggests (Worcester News, August 19).

And the facts and reasoning given for the suggestion really don’t stack up.

Mr Roberts describes Warndon Villages as highly affluent, contrasting it with Warndon, which he says is “quite different”. But Warndon Villages is not universally affluent, and Warndon itself is hardly a sink estate.

And even if it was, so what?

It would be better to focus effort on improving both areas rather than changing the name of one of them.

The cost of renaming Warndon Villages might be minor compared to other Tory pet projects, such as £70 billion for HS2 and, apparently, more than £1.5 billion for the Hartlebury incinerator.

But like them, it would still be a poor and no doubt expensive solution to a nonexistent problem.

There are plenty of real issues to deal with. This isn’t one of them.

STEVE DAVIS

UKIP, Worcester