The fate of Tenby Tourist Information Centre’s future could be sealed at a meeting in October as the matter will be considered by Pembrokeshire County Council’s cabinet once again.

Correspondence from PCC’s head of service Paul Ashley-Jones came before members of Tenby town council at their meeting on Tuesday night, stating that it would be useful for to summarise the situation ahead now into the summer holiday period.

The TIC has been earmarked for closure, with the county council recently trialling a ‘snack bar’ at the facility to try and offset some of its running costs.

“As requested by the Town Council, Pembrokeshire County Council agreed to defer the closure decision of Tenby TIC to give the Town Council time to prepare potential alternative solutions rather than closure,” wrote Mr. Ashley-Jones.

“We had agreed that we remain open until September 30 to allow this to happen and in the interim period the County CounCil introduced a small catering outlet at the TIC in order to try and increase revenue streams.

“It is our intention for the matter to be considered by Cabinet at their meeting on October 7 and to this end I will need to finalise the necessary report by mid- September. This will also allow me to receive feedback from our Catering Service as to the viability of the catering outlet moving forward.

“To date business has been slow but we are hoping that it may pick up over the school holiday period. On its own however it seems very unlikely that it will allow the TIC to move to a cost neutral model, which is something that Cabinet would be keen to achieve in order for a decision to be made to remain open,” continued Mr. Ashley-Jones requesting that the town council provide any proposals/representations that could be included in any report to the cabinet for their consideration by September 12, stating that he would attend the next town council meeting on September 3, ahead of this deadline.

Clr. Mrs. Tracey Evans told her colleagues that no wonder ‘business was slow’ in regards to the TIC’s new snack bar, as she had popped in their recently, and there was no signage stating that they sold tea, coffee and refreshments.

“I’m not surprised if it has proved unsuccessful as they have not advertised it whatsoever!” she remarked.

“They eventually printed off an A4 sheet of paper and stuck it in the window - but that is not good enough in my opinion.”

Clr. Trevor Hallett said that this was a clear indication that PCC do not want to keep the facility open.

The town clerk Andrew Davies said that no actual formal proposals on how to retain the facility had come forward to take to the cabinet.

Clr. Laurence Blackall said that it would be the town council’s aim to put forward firm proposals before the September 12 deadline.