State of Tenby's streets and pavements has come in for criticism from a local councillor, who believes that standards of street cleansing have dropped. At Tuesday night's meeting of the town council, Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown explained that she had been approached by a number of residents complaining about the situation, with letters written to the Observer also highlighting the problem. "I've been on a few walkabouts to take a look for myself at what people have been telling me, and they're right, the standards we've been used to over the past few months have definitely fallen," she stated. "I've done some investigating of my own and found out that there has been some sort of restructuring with regards to the county council's municipal services department, where now there are only two street cleaners being used when previously there were six; and its become noticeable how shabby some areas have become because of this. "I think we were all dubious when county council were handed this duty, and now the cutbacks have started, we must ask how long for, and where has the workforce gone?" continued Clr. Mrs. Brown. "It's all very well having all these enhancement works taking place in improving the town visually, but what's the point if the streets and pavements being worked on are filthy. We need a clean town and are letting the people down if we don't see to it their town's cleanliness is being maintained," she added. County representative, Clr. Mike Evans, said that he was personally unaware of any restructuring, but was glad that the matter had been brought to his attention. He said he would contact the county council's head of maintenance, Brian Maddocks, immediately with the town council's concerns.