The Green Party identity is unravelling rapidly with its beliefs and core purpose fast becoming sidelined in the face of what they seem to see as more exciting ideas.

The Party does not support battery chicken production but it seems to support battery human housing production, euphemistically labelled "affordable housing".

It does not support intensive agriculture but seems indulgent about intensively increased population plans for Brighton and Hove, fertilised by promises of wealth.

Creating more dense innercity populations will create as much disturbance and poor health as any battery hen cage or veal crate ever has.

We are to be piled high, packed tightly in, the flats sold or rented cheap.

Witnessing a Green councillor either approve (or enable by abstention) the approval of the addition of extra storeys on top of an existing block of flats was bad enough.

How ironic it was to have the sole "green lung" argument against the house build being put by a Conservative councillor - Carol Theobold.

It now beggars belief to read the Greens feel they can support a 38-storey high building on the seafront to achieve "affordable housing" when they made no effort to put a comparable amount of affordable housing on The Preston Barracks development site.

Instead, they murmured approval for the commercial stuff which will go.

-Valerie Paynter, Hove