Sir,

Isn’t it amazing that money can always be found to spend on public gardens in Tenby, one would think there was nothing else here. The latest amount of £20,000 proposed to be lavished on Battery Gardens could surely be better spent elsewhere.

I have in my mind during recent times that schoolchildren were asked to come up with a new design for the same gardens along the lines of a sponsored sensory garden, but the results of that didn’t seem to have lasted for long and who can forget the inspired decision to put a lighthouse in there which didn’t last two minutes.

What is the idea behind a Gorsedd circle of standing stones? Have we had an eisteddfod there? Have Druids been there?

Whenever I have passed Battery Gardens there is never anyone in there and it could be said that upgrading it would encourage people to go in, but I have been so inspired by the idea of changing Brother Thomas’s Garden into an open-air theatre with flexible space that I’m sure the money would be better spent in the centre of the town where more people could benefit from it, something so completely different from yet another garden of which we have many. Being used in this way and with a cctv security camera, it would surely stop any anti-social behaviour.

Think of the use it could have this week during the Arts Festival or other events. Come on Tenby Town Council, use your imagination and try something different!

PS. While I’m on the subject, when was the bandstand last used?

Alyson Bush,

1 The Glebe,

Tenby.