Sir,
'I don't believe it' (a Victor Mildrew outburst). Using public money for a private enterprise to build an amusement centre in a National Park. 'I don't believe it'. With all 76 trombones, McNamara's band is playing the right notes, and it's pennies from heaven.
The Bluestone scheme from its inception to the present time has been orchestrated with a magic wand; appeared, manipulated sub rosa and influentially goaded. A map of the proposed site plan published earlier this year was obscure, blurred and unintelligible and the perfunctory public relations exercises located in aloof areas calculated to be least opposed. The Narberth area, most hostile to the scheme, was carefully avoided.
Approval for Bluestone has given rise to a ground swell of an increasingly forceful presence against it, and alarm by the fear of burying the county's original character. It is not difficult to be objective about emotions running from anger to incomprehension; words of testimony that are never acted on, for they are, in the end, only as effective as the people moved to be roused by them. Bluestone is an enormous mismatch for Pembrokeshire, without endorsement.
National Parks were introduced to protect areas of outstanding natural beauty against disturbance. Bluestone violates that Act. Cornwall's successful Eden Project was carefully designed to be unobtrusive and with sensitivity sited in a disused quarry. Planning consent will be assigned to the conscience of officials.
David Waymont
Colby Mill,
Llawhaden,
Narberth.