Work on erecting scaffold around the remaining structure of Tenby's Royal Gatehouse Hotel - gutted in an Easter inferno - has been put on hold by Pembrokeshire County Council. The complex network of scaffolding should have been in place by the end of the month and would allow the council to open The Norton to traffic in time for the Spring Bank Holiday at the beginning of May. However, in view of the emergency extraordinary meeting being called by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority next week, the council has confirmed that work on putting up the scaffolding will not start until the outcome of this is known. "There is currently no work on site because the specialist demolition contractors have finished the removal of the sections of the building at immediate risk of collapse" explained the authority's civil contingencies manager, Richard Brown. "However, while some people feel that nothing is happening because there are no workmen actually on the site, the opposite is true." Design of the complicated web of scaffold - if needed - has been proceeding, while further survey works have been ongoing to supplement and support this. The county council decided last week that as survey work indicated continuing concern about the safety of the remaining structure, it would have to take urgent action to make the site safe and secure. Meanwhile, the shuttle service for trade deliveries into Tenby - introduced by the county council - will continue next week. While cars and vans are being allowed into Tenby, customers should inform their supplier/haulier that anything bigger than a standard low roof Transit van should go to The Salterns long term car park on the outskirts of the resort where Pembrokeshire County Council will be operating a goods transhipping shuttle service for traders. The service operates from 7 am to 11.30 am every day except Sunday. "We are asking haulage operators and traders who have deliveries to Tenby to ring our contact centre so that we have advance warning of their arrival" explained Darren Thomas, the council's head of highways and construction. The number to ring is 01437 764551.