A local resident has responded to comments made by town councillors on the commencement of a shared use permit parking scheme that is due to begin its trial run this week.

Members of Tenby Town Council recently gave their backing to an experimental order for Culver Park and Southcliff Street, after Pembrokeshire County Council’s cabinet approved last November that a review of the council’s policy in respect of permit parking be undertaken by way of a 12 month trial in the town.

“In terms of the shared use parking for both of these streets, it is proposed that two hour limited waiting between 8 am to 6 pm, is used which will provide sufficient time for those wishing to visit residents or the town, reverting then to permit holders only between 6 pm to 8 am,” explained county council senior traffic engineer Ben Blake in correspondence received by the town council recently.

Responding to the proposals, councillors backed the idea to trail the scheme, despite being informed that one resident of Culver Park was unhappy over the proposals.

Responding to the comments, resident Mark Williams sent an email to the town council, which came before members at their meeting on Wednesday.

“Why doesn’t Tenby Town Council look at the plans in depth, you will see locals that travel in and work in Tenby will be worse off as more spaces will be taken up with these plans,” he wrote.

“We wanted one extra bay that was shared from April 1 to September 30, between 6 pm and 8 am, and all other times used for general public. Southcliffe Street wasn’t in this trial.

“With the two hour rule in Southcliffe Street, this includes every bay in that street, can you tell me where a full time resident of that street is going to park if all bays are full of general public vehicles in the day time?” continued Mr. Williams, stating that the town councillors had ‘blinkers’ on.

After reading the correspondence, Mayor, Clr. Paul Rapi said that the matter was out of the town council’s hands and up to PCC going forward.

“The trial starts next week whether we like it or not as a town council, so unfortunately there’s not much we can do about that,” he remarked.