Tenby 2020 are holding an open meeting on Thursday, March 14, at 8 pm, in the De Valence Pavilion. This meeting is open to all residents and business people of Tenby, to keep everyone informed as to what the organisation is doing, and to give people an opportunity to tell the management committee what they should be doing.
Guest speaker will be Gordon Doughty, Haverfordwest town centre manager, who will speak on what his job entails, and how it is now being funded. Originally, Gordon was an employee of the county council, but he is now employed by a partnership led by the Haverfordwest Chamber of Commerce. It has been part of Tenby 2020's Action Plan to have a similar arrangement in Tenby.
It is also hoped to have a speaker on the designation by the Wales Tourist Board of Tenby as a tourism Growth Area. The WTB have appointed the Tourism Company as consultants to prepare an Action Plan for their initiative, and it is understood that that work is well under way, and they will be reporting at the end of next month.
Tenby 2020 have recently made a full response to the county council on their Traffic Plan for Tenby, and there will be an opportunity to discuss that.
Lastly, there will be a discussion on what representations to make to the county council and the National Park on their Joint Unitary Development Plan, when it is published this spring. Most of the proposals that will be in the plan are already in the public domain, and as readers of the Observer will know, Tenby 2020 have made representations on the controversial proposal for a supermarket site allocation at New Hedges. The plan contains other proposals that affect Tenby.
On behalf of Tenby 2020, chair Mike Thorne has told the Observer: "There are a lot of things going on at the moment that will have a significant impact on the future of Tenby. We need to hear from residents and business people whether we have been saying the right things. We want to be able to represent the views of Tenby people accurately, and to that end we hope that people will come along to our meetings and make their voices heard."