MRS Olive Hardy of Rosemary Court wrote concerning the leaflet called Focus (February 2). She refers to the "supposed" involvement of the Liberal Democrats in the installation of double glazed windows on the Navigation Road Estate and the alleygating scheme of Guildhall Ward.

I totally support Mrs Hardy as I represented Navigation Road Residents Association at the full council meeting in the Guildhall on November 5 2002 at which it was the Labour - not Liberal Democrat - Party that was represented.

Thankfully the new windows were fitted in time this winter, especially bearing in mind the recent severe weather.

If anyone has any views about any issues that concern the Guildhall Ward, please join us tonight at 7.30pm at the Image Works, Garden Place, Stonebow.

Barbara Pettitt,

Rosemary Place,

York.

...CONTRARY to Mrs Hardy's letter Labour have repeatedly failed to support alleygating in York.

Having "called in" the initial proposal to appoint an alleygating officer at a meeting of the council's executive on September 16, they then failed to vote for the proposal at a meeting of the strategic policy panel called specifically to reconsider it.

Lib Dems have been the driving force between the expansion of alleygating in York. Labour's sudden change of heart is opportunistic, to say the least.

Phill Thomas,

Brecksfields,

Skelton, York.

Updated: 09:36 Monday, February 09, 2004