Those of us who voted Green at the local election for Brighton and Hove are beginning to wonder if they are simply the more rapacious wing of the Conservative Party in disguise.

First, the Greens, voting as a block, undermine the planning committee’s rejection of the high-rise hotel overlooking the ancient St Nicholas Church Yard.

This shambles – presided over by Green planning committee chair Councillor Christopher Hawtree – has opened up Brighton and Hove City Council to an expensive legal action from local residents who wish to restore the committee’s original decision to reject the development.

Next, they plan to build over the city’s green outskirts with grim shoebox housing which will only be practically reached by car. In addition, they will install a business park in a city that is still struggling to fill its office space.

What about regenerating the interior of the city, using existing buildings and brownfield sites without adding to traffic, carbon expenditure through building and creating a depressing eyesore as the first thing many people see when entering Brighton?

Why can’t the Greens be green, as I and many others who voted for them wanted them to be?

We looked to them to protect the city’s environment. They seem to be attacking it.

Mark Barrowcliffe, Wykeham Terrace, Brighton