LORD Mayor Cllr Julie Gunnell is in a predicament as she equivocates over the proposed building of eight new flats near to a park in her ward (The Press, April 22).

Does she follow her party’s policy of building or does she represent the views of her constituents in that area? She does not say.

This illustrates the reason why we need a majority of truly independent councillors at Station Rise, so we can get proper representation and stop the steam-rolling of political dogma through council.

Councillors should stop and think why their patches are called “wards”, and stop using them as a convenient means of pushing their political agendas against the wishes of the majority.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington, York.