Eight of the missing Victoria Pier railings, formerly fronting the Beatrix Potter Garden on The Croft, lost during development on the Guidhall site in Tenby, are to be replaced by eight cast replicas located on the same frontage. This follows pressure from Tenby Civic Society and Tenby Conservation Forum for their re-instatement.

The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park planners recently agreed landscaping plans on The Croft frontage of the Guildhall development scheme in Tenby that will re-instate a full set of nine elegant cast iron panels from the former Victoria Pier that were on the site before it was sold for development by the county council. These and several other sets of early railings were to be kept in a new scheme in the first planning permission, but in the course of construction, the Victoria Pier railings and others disappeared.

When pressed, developers could find only one complete Victoria Pier section, but after discussions they agreed to get a full set of replacement castings made from the one they had. They will be positioned on The Croft frontage in similar positions to before. Also to be installed beside them will be the Beatrix Potter information plaque the town council still hold, which was originally planned to go in the Beatrix Potter Garden which was absorbed into the development site.

Chairman of Tenby Civic Society Harry Gardiner commented: "Given that quite a lot of original railings and other features from Georgian and later periods have been lost in the course of the sequence of plans and construction, it is right that the developers should replace the Victoria Pier railings in particular, as elegant reminders of how easy it is to throw away our past for the convenience of the present.

"The developers and their architects in this latest phase of the scheme are being helpful in replicating a number of original features such as porches and railings to restore some of the character of the original two main buildings, but it is sad to find original features removed to be then replicated whether interior or exterior.

"As to design, it has been a relief to find the developers returning, in this final phase, to the style of design in the first permission, and incorporate features more in keeping with the original style of the buildings.

"I need to express the society's thanks to the Park's conservation section, and the Tenby Conservation Forum for their support, as well as the developers for recognising the issues involved. This points to the task of including the preserved features rescued from the Gatehouse building in its reconstruction, items that are currently stored on that site."