Play park enhancement in Tenby was discussed once more by local councillors this week, with the suggestion of an audit being carried out to see if any upgrades can be made to the facilities in the area.

Speaking at Tuesday night’s meeting of the town council, Clr. Mike Evans again asked his fellow members if the will was there to look at enhancing play parks across Tenby.

Clr. Evans recently suggested that there could possibly be an opportunity to tap into the ‘Enhancing Pembrokeshire Grant’ scheme, to look at funding for play parks in the town that required upgrading.

Residents of Heywood Court recently contacted the town council seeking support to look into the possibility of refurbishing their play park area, which had not been upgraded for many years and had gone into a state of disrepair somewhat.

From the talks, construction and building maintenance company R and M Williams Building Group stepped forward to offer assistance to help with any enhancement.

Clr. Evans put the question to members if they were interested on upgrading play parks, and if so, what would they like the town council to be involved with doing and in what areas.

He suggested looking at the facility at Newell Hill as a starting point, with his fellow councillors Mrs. Tracey Evans and Viv Perry stating that they’d be happy to assist on any site meeting there.

Financially, the Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Sue Lane said that the town council had to be very careful with what they considered taking on financially, due to cuts to other services.

“It would be a worthwhile thing to do, but we need to bear in in mind that the money side of things is very tight, and we need to be very careful with taking on more and more at the town council, with the likes of painting and weeding also required for the upkeep of the town,” she said.

Clr. Paul Rapi agreed and said that he didn’t think that the town council should be taking on the insurance side of things for play parks, as there was too much liability.

Deputy Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown said it would be a good idea to look at enhancing play parks, but she too had reservations over taking on responsibility for insurance.

“A lot of the town council’s precept goes towards the tourist trade side of things, but I appreciate that there are brackets of local people with nothing to do with the centre of Tenby itself, so we are ignoring to some degree that part of the precept if we don’t look at these aspects,” she commented.

Clr. Evans and other members agreed it would be a good exercise to look into the possibility of enhancing play parks.