Sir,

May I congratulate you on making the proposal to construct a Civic Amenity Site (CAS) next to Brooklands your front page article in your paper dated April 12. Perhaps now we can have some credible planning objections to the proposal.

I would appreciate you allowing me to comment on the letter by Mr. Doyle from Penally, published in your paper on April 5, replying to my letter on March 29. The correspondence concerned the decision of several county and community councillors to object to the proposed site.

I do believe Mr. Doyle totally missed the points I raised in my letter, which was that objections by Pembrokeshire County Councillors and Saundersfoot Community Councillors had to be 'credible' and that 'the site was not a waste dump, but a collection/recycling centre'.

Consultants were engaged at great cost to local council taxpayers by Pembrokeshire County Council, to find a suitable site 'based on certain criteria'. If only they had known an expert in locating possible sites for collection/recycling centres lived locally; all of that expenditure could have been saved.

I do think Mr. Doyle's suggestion that it be sited along Pembroke Road was perhaps more based in anger at my questioning of the credibility of the objections to the Brooklands site, rather than Pembroke Road being a suitable site. I make this comment based on practical considerations bearing in mind the narrow roads that surround the road and its distance from the main towns in the south-east of Pembrokeshire which it is meant to serve.

It was clear from press reports that Saundersfoot Community Councillors and Pembrokeshire County Councillors Phillip Baker (Independent), Saundersfoot, and Jonathan Preston (Plaid), Penally, objected to the application. I understand that the reasoning behind their objections, according to press reports, was there was a danger of pollution to local Blue Flag beaches, it was likely to cause an accident blackspot and have a detrimental effect on the gateway to Saundersfoot and Tenby.

One of the main services carried out by Pembrokeshire County Council is waste collection/recycling. As stated earlier, both Phillip Baker and John Preston have come out publicly against the Brooklands site. I therefore challenge local county councillors David Pugh (Independent Plus Political Group), Kilgetty, and Jacob Williams (Independent), East Williamston, as well as Michael Williams (Plaid) and Michael Evans (Independent), Tenby, to state publicly their view on the suitability of the Brooklands site.

Pembrokeshire County Councillors are paid out of the public purse to make decisions and, after all, it is they who are in control at County Hall, not the employees.

Malcolm Calver,

Manorbier.