I have just driven home past the development of ‘officers field’.

It was my first contact with the security fence separating the Olympians from the community. It is grotesque and will be my abiding visual memory of the Games.

To have to spend the summer driving past this monstrosity does nothing with regard to welcoming people to the island.

What it does is give the message that we have been taken over and being firmly told to KEEP OUT.

I don’t need people bleating on about security for the athletes when history suggests its the ordinary folk who suffer the greatest terrorist atrocities.

The fencing is just a mess and gives no warning to the stark visual message to everyone coming on to the island for whatever reason.

Andrew Wilcox Mead Bower Southwell Portland