Sir,
Best for Tenby says Ivor Jenkins; I agree, but I despair at planning committees. They seem to know nothing about the aesthetics of architecture. Do they understand the term brutalisum?
Croft Court, the multi-storey, voted one of the most ugly constructions in Europe. They threw away the Fountains site to some development of gift shops and flats. Do we need more of that? It could have been a wonderful botanic garden incorporating Silent World, with a cafe, some flats for locals, something special, a place for locals to enjoy on cold wet winter days.
Nowhere to go when it's raining now Woolworths has gone. God help us if they pass Lego-city on the Gatehouse site! The back side of the Delphi for as long as I can remember looks like Calcutta - nice welcome to Tenby if you arrive by bus; the railway station is not much better. The development on the Croft is not exactly a masterpiece of design. Do we want people to come here in the future to see how not to do it?
These so-called planners should be sent to Eastern Europe, at their own expense. Take the blinkers off. Well, in the current financial crisis, it may never happen. We can only hope there will be time to reflect, before any more brutal developments are imposed on the town. Buildings can tower over the town walls, but they want to cut down the trees - madness, stupidity, cash.
Thomas Lewis,
Bridge Street,
Tenby.