Tenby Civic Society have highlighted the need for signage modifications on the historic Town Walls to better fit their surroundings.

“There is a variety of signage on doorways in the Town Walls, none of which appears to have been given planning permission,” a spokesperson for the Civic Society stated.

“Most of these fit in well with the walls, being fitted inside the doorways formed in the walls so of modest size and usually modest colours.

“Others are not inside the doorway but fit over the walls, and lack a style, size and position to match the other signage. Most premises owners understand the importance of the Town Walls and being visually respectful, but showing who they are and what is inside in their premises.

“They didn’t need us or the planners to work that out! We hope in due course the other signs can be altered to fit in better.”

“Several premises have useful rear doorways in the Town Walls and like to have a way of advertising the premises inside, so several have neatly fitted their signs inside the top of their doorway, usually fixed to the doorframe.

“CADW generally prefers not to have signage attached to the walls – heritage plaques relating to the walls have to be secured into the mortar not the stones.”

The Civic Society said that although some premises have fitted their signs neatly inside the arch above their door, not covering any of the walls’ stonework, other establishments, which have square topped doorways with less room, have fixed signs covering the walls.

“These signs do not fit in as well as they cover part of the walls, and do not match the doorway in size, so are discordant,” continued the spokesperson for the Civic Society.

“They could better be fixed on the doors themselves – leaving the walls unobscured.

The Town Crier new premises are impressive, their sign on the Walls itself has the merit of showing a town crier and the name is a fitting tribute to ‘Yobbler’ who was Tenby Town Crier and lived in the premises when a toy shop.

“Let’s hope it can be positioned more suitably, especially as it does not have planning permission and was removed from an advert application!

“The Normandie sign fits in, the Town Crier’s sticks out, Mykonos is overlarge?

“Better if signs fit the shape and rhythm of the doorways,” they added.