Sir,

Re: ‘Proposals for a Tenby ‘master plan’ discussed’. I thought I’d been transported back 16 years when I read last week’s headline. Do other readers remember the ‘2020 Action Plan’?

For those who don’t, it was a regeneration plan for Tenby drafted in 1999 following an extensive community appraisal (inc. questionnaires to every household) carried out under a steering committee set up by Tenby TC, with advice from SPARC.

Five committees were set up covering all aspects outlined by the current PCC regeneration manager - Tourism and Business, Environment and Heritage, Ed. and Training, Traffic and Transport and Community and Services.

I still have the lengthy 1999 document, which I dropped off at the council office on Monday, only to discover that there, hanging on the wall, was the later 2007 document, available for all to see!

That Tenby TC might be prepared to PAY consultants after the job has already been done is not only a flagrant waste of money, but an insult to all those who worked so hard at the time, and who actually achieved some things - pedestrianisation, street furniture, signage, amongst others. It involved, I can assure our Mayor, a little more than councillors ‘jotting’ down a few ideas.

I find it slightly ironic, that on page 3 of the same issue, there is a photograph of County Clr. Jacob Williams who appeared on BBC’s ‘Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions’ on the issue of PCC’s £70k consultation fee to Price Waterhouse Coopers. I gather it was to save mone.

Both 1999 and 2007 ‘Action Plans’ are now in the council office, for councillor’s perusal (and presumably, by request, the public’s).

June Howell,

Middle Walls Lane,

Penally.