A recent debate amongst town councillors following correspondence from a teenager who claimed that there was little for her age group to do in Tenby, has led to pupils from a local school putting the item on their agenda as a topic for discussion.

At the last meeting of the council, 15-year-old Lori Amos had written stating that youngsters around the same age as her, had nowhere to go on Friday or Saturday nights without being wrongly targeted by people or being moved on by police without doing anything wrong,

As a result, Clr. Paul Rapi told his colleagues on Tuesday night that he had asked the head boy and head girl of Greenhill School to try to generate some feedback from fellow pupils.

"The response so far from students seems to be of the notion that a skate park facility in the town would be an ideal place for the youngsters to gather and socialise out of school," said Clr. Rapi.

"Teenagers of a certain age growing up don't want to be supervised, they work hard in school and sometimes a Friday night, say, is the only night they are able to meet up out of school time," he added.

Deputy Mayor. Clr. Sandra Williams, felt that even though Tenby was a quiet area, with sometimes very little for teenagers to do, those disadvantages were outweighed by the fact that the area was such a safe place for youths to grow up.

"One of the reasons I moved back to Tenby is because it's such a safe and fabulous place for our children to grow up," she said."There are activities here too run for youngsters such as the Youth Club, ATC, Sea Cadets, Guides, as well as the football and rugby teams, but we really do need to focus our efforts on getting this skate park facility in place."

Clr. Williams also criticised a local parent for comments in a letter to the Observer in response to Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown's remarks regarding the issue, calling the letter from Mrs. Stewart-Walvin "extremely negative."

Clr. Mrs. Tish Rossiter also criticised the letter from Mrs. Stewart-Walvin, who claimed that Clr. Mrs. Brown's comments had belittled the girl who had sent the email, and expected her to apologise.

"The letter was very unkind. If the lady had so much to offer Tenby, why didn't she stand for council herself," she said, with Clr. Mrs. Brown offering her apologies to the girl, saying that she wanted "nothing more than for the kids of the town to have a good time."

"It can be done, there is a lot for children here in Tenby. I'm going to have a dig here, though. Maybe if the lady who wrote the letter wants to help, she could offer her front room up for youngsters to chill out in. People used to do it; that would be a very good suggestion," she remarked.