In your article, Traffic light bid to run city (Oxford Mail, August 17), you quote city council leader John Goddard as saying: "If Labour and Lib Dems want to support more houses in Oxford, the Greens would do their best to stop it" as his reason for not supporting a sharing of power.
I would like to point out two mistakes in this statement. Only the Greens wish to see considerably more housing built in the city. We propose more housing than the other two parties for both the Westgate site and the West End development, both brown field, city centre sites. We oppose building in the Green Belt.
Secondly, as the article points out, the Lib Dems have 15 seats and Labour 19. With the Greens holding eight, I fail to see how we could stop anything the other two parties wanted to push through.
DEBORAH GLASS WOODIN (Councillor) Oxfordshire Green Party
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