I HOPE the residents of Clifton will support their resigned councillors, who have achieved something where the other parties have failed, namely hopefully seeing off the Local Plan for York.

Maybe the council could now concentrate on viable alternatives, such as a small town on south or south of the west ring road; building on brownfield sites; instructing universities to build student accommodation with affordable rent, thus releasing terraced property on the market; and supporting an abridged bedroom tax to release more property.

CP Hird, York Road, Haxby, York.