What depressing reading was the article on City of York’s ruling Labour group’s Local Development Framework plans for the city over the next 20 years (Labour sets “sites” on 9,000 homes, June 30).

York councils past and present make a habit of creating problems for the city.

First, the council created congestion and pollution when the Labour Party, followed by the Lib Dems, closed off hundreds of streets in and around York so a journey now can take three times longer than previously.

Secondly, with the help of the Labour MP Hugh Bayley, the council put massive pressures onto York’s infrastructure – the NHS, roads, housing, dentistry, jobs, etc, – by encouraging an influx of thousands of people into York.

Nine thousand new homes they want to create.

Multiply that by four, and where is the work to occupy another 36,000 people minimum? York has at the moment its fair share of home-grown idle people, living off the backs of taxpayers, without importing any more.

What is the Labour obsession with wanting to create a bigger York? Yes, green-belt land will go, and reading the list of potential brownfield sites to commit to housing, such as British Sugar, I fear for York’s future young generation.

Where is the work to support everyone?

Bob Waite, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.