CONTRARY to reports in the recent York Labour Rose, City of York Council have not worked as closely with Huntington parish council as they make out.

The Anthea Drive scheme was put forward by the parish council, not the ward committee. Funding for the scheme, met by the parish council and the highways department, had already been agreed before ward committees came on the scene.

The Huntington School road safety scheme was first put forward by the parish council not by their transport spokesperson.

Councillor Merrett is wide of the mark in his comments on funding. What he fails to say is that the funding used to create ward committees was taken away from parish councils, who used it to improve and introduce local community schemes, by the Labour Group, without prior consultation.

All this spin from a party which is going to desecrate Huntington with proposals to place 71 per cent of total green land commercial development and 32 per cent of the total green land housing development in Huntington.

Peter G Richardson,

Clerk to Huntington Parish

Council,

Merlin Court,

Huntington, York.

Updated: 10:55 Monday, July 29, 2002