Oxford Green Party have written to Oxford and District Labour Party threatening legal action over a claim made in a leaflet first circulated around the May 2013 elections that the Green representative on the West Area Planning Committee, former Lord Mayor Cllr Elise Benjamin, voted FOR the controversial Port Meadow development. Cllr Benjamin has always maintained (as publicly stated on many occasions - including an acknowledgement in the Oxford Mail as recently as March 2013) that she abstained on the critical February 2012 planning vote.