IT looks like the new Labour-led council is struggling to find fault with the Green Party initiative for the regeneration of Valley Gardens, however hard they look. (Plans for £18m redevelopment of Valley Gardens will go ahead with overhaul, May 11) This is unsurprising – securing £14 million in external funding for the scheme to join-up the park and improve transport from The Level to the seafront is a spectacular achievement at a time when most towns and cities are seeing cuts – not investment – in public amenities.

I urge Labour to get firmly on board with this well-planned, financially secure scheme, that will bring long-term benefits to residents and visitors to Brighton & Hove.

Councillors’ focus should instead be on how to protect the city’s most vulnerable adults and children from the £25m in cuts to services ushered through in the March budget.

The pain of implementing the extraordinary and unnecessary Tory Party cuts to local government will be felt acutely by all of us in the coming months and years. However, it is those people on the lowest incomes and living with disability or ill-health that will suffer most.

Natasha Steel

Former Green candidate for Hangleton & Knoll

Elm Drive

Hove