WHO saved Headington car park? Reports and letters in your paper have given the credit to a broad-based campaign involving residents, businesses and local representatives.

A lone letter from Jane Darke stands outside the consensus under the heading ‘credit where it’s due’, the author says it was all down to her.

I’m not sure what’s more jaw-dropping: the arrogance of that letter or its detachment from reality.

In effect, she is saying to all those involved in the campaign to save the car park – of course Labour wouldn’t listen to mere local people.

Nor, on her creative rewriting, do the planners deserve any credit, even though they listened to the arguments and recommended excluding the site from development. Is she really saying that Labour were poised to overturn that recommendation? If that’s the case, then, clearly, her comrades had not found her all that persuasive.

She may not be aware how angry she has made Headington residents who see her as a johnny-come-lately who can’t resist jumping on the bandwagon when the battle is won.

You can see their point. Up to now, the only one of her surname who has spoken out on this issue has been her husband, the one Darke elected to public office, who, in your paper, described building on the site as ‘essential’. As far as most are concerned, Mrs Darke's only contribution is to claim the credit that’s due to other people.

DAVID RUNDLE, City Councillor (Lib Dem), Headington Ward