Sir, Whose 'not so bright' idea was it to paint Tenby's multi-storey car park in drab shades of green? Both the decision to paint the building and the long list of detractors offended by its imposing mass fail to appreciate the building's significant place in architectural history. It is a direct example of architecture that sprung from the second half of the last century. An architecture that championed the aesthetics and possibilities of moulded concrete named 'Brutalism'. The term does not derive from the word 'brutal' but originates from the French beton brut, or 'raw concrete'. The Tenby car park exhibits many of the defining traits of this movement, with the graphic detailing of the moulded concrete facade, the sculpted interior, raised platform supported on stilts and its undisrupted long strips of ribbon like openings, it has taken clear and direct cues from renowned exponents like Le Corbusier. The car park earns the council over £90,000 a year, which is lucky, as it will now require costly repainting maintenance. An alternative solution to vandalising the building with paint may have included the simple replacement of light bulbs with coloured, eco-friendly alternatives, a colour for each level. It would have added a clear contemporary accent against the historic concrete and at the very least introduced an element of gaiety at small cost and in a manner that does not foolishly try and paint the building out of view. Another cack-handed intervention in the town of little fishes.

Dai Jones, St. Mary's Hill, Tenby.