I would like to pass comment on the controversy caused by the Unchain The Brighton Motorist campaign.

As a Brighton boy born and bred, I have watched many initiatives come into effect in our beautiful city over the years.

I was taught common sense will prevail. However, since the Greens appeared on our doorstep, common sense seems to have gone out of the window.

I am thrilled to see a strong local business group taking the bit between its teeth and voicing an opinion shared by the majority.

The Greens’ own agenda has gone on for long enough. They seem to feel that as a minority party they represent the majority.

When will the Greens get the hint and leave the city alone?

They have crucified local industry with their costly tactics. They have cost residents fortunes from council budgets to advance worthless ideas. They have contributed to the demise of Brighton tourism.

The cost of a day’s parking and the inaccessibility of decent parking facilities at an affordable price is a dinnertime conversation point in households all over the South Coast. Let’s talk about Brighton, but not for the wrong reasons.

Pedestrians and cyclists are two groups who seem to think they are a law unto themselves. Stand on a corner in St James’s Street and count how many of both groups are oblivious to the traffic.

It’s amazing there are not more incidents with them and their blasé attitude towards the motorist.

Of course, the Greens probably view every cyclist, pedestrian or bus-user as a Green candidate.

I support the businesses which have put this campaign into effect.

Brian Ralfe, The Drive, Hove

The worst thing about this Green council is the legacy it will leave behind when voted out next time.

It’s all very well having a Utopian dream where if people haven’t got anything to do they can get on their bike and cycle leisurely into town. But the reality is that others need a vehicle to go about their daily business: taxi drivers, working tradesmen, business people, delivery drivers and more.

And most people need to park outside their own homes to do this. I have a friend who is a hard-working builder trying to survive. He lives in a service road adjacent to Lewes Road. There was no problem with him or anyone else parking outside their house. Now the council has created six or so parking bays where he has to pay to park, on top of a yearly parking permit to go about his daily tasks.

While we live in a democracy, what right have the Greens to keep pursuing policies which the majority of Brighton residents don’t want? This town belongs to the people who live in it, not the handful of Green councillors who just need to get to the town hall.

When a new council is elected perhaps it can spend some of its vast parking revenue putting the city back to how it was.

Mr G Pumfrey, Green Ridge, Brighton