Public consultation is merely a charade, implies Councillor Jenny Barnard-Langston (Letters, October 30).

Many of Brighton and Hove's streets have terraced houses converted into multi-occupancy flats, several car owners and no garages. These streets, built in the railway, tram and horse-and-cart era, are parking battlefields.

Southern England in the next two decades will have hundreds of thousands of new homes, vastly increasing the numbers of cars and demand on public transport, needing radical changes in transport planning. The local Tory manifesto suggested underground car parks along the seafront, an inept idea that would further swamp the city centre. The political slogan "We will not wage war on the motorists like the other lot" is deceitful, as motorists will be restricted.

All councillors should stop passing the buck for short-term votes because if there is no honest, strategic, integrated transport policy in the city's 20-year plan, the city will suffocate to death.

-John Stanaway, Lorna Road, Hove