Sir, With regard to the proposed development of 102, so called, affordable homes at the Brynhir greenfields area. Would someone be good enough to explain to me what is affordable, how affordable can be achieved and who exactly will benefit from affordable?

Am I right in thinking that the land owner will be looking to sell the plots individually or in block form at a below market price or that the land owner (or developer) will in fact develop the site themselves and sell to the less well off at a price they can afford, regardless of making a profit or covering costs? Because unless the savings come from those that stand to gain the most, they will have to come from the work force and, to be honest, you are not going to get a decent workforce to work below what they are worth without the quality of the build suffering and the standard being below par; as they have in so many other budget builds.

Or, will this in fact be social housing owned by PCC and the tenants will pay a rent and the ownership retained by PCC?

With regards to the housing being for the benefit of local people, we have already been informed that those on the housing list do not necessarily have to be from Tenby and could well be from Milford or even Glasgow, but the fact that they have been here for only one week classes them as local. So if their needs are greater than someone with generations of local input they would, in fact, be ahead of them on the housing list. Are there any guarantees as to who would benefit?

If these houses are sold on the open market, what criteria would the purchaser have to meet before being considered and what stipulations would be in place to prevent them selling on to the open market in the future, thus making a mockery of any discounts given.

Once Brynhir becomes just another concrete jungle and the housing needs for a popular Tenby are still not met, where would the next amount of housing be built to satisfy the popular Real Estate Market that Tenby has become?

The reality is Tenby is a very expensive place to live. The boom in second homes and the right to buy has created not a shortage of homes, but shortages of realistic priced houses and social homes. Building on the Brynhir site will not alter any of this as, unless these homes are built as social housing, they will all end up as unreachable, unaffordable homes that many of the local working population are unable to afford.

I believe that any money that the developers feel they would like to spend would be better used on the less lucrative, of improving what we already have; giving special regard to insulation, damp proofing, green-energy, ventilation, clean internal air etc. Visually pleasing premises inside and out open spaces and an infrastructure that works for us all. Thus, creating more skilled, higher wages, a pride in where we live, and the chance to buy on the open market without the need to dress it up.

Forty years ago as a young man with a young family, I too had to buy outside of the Tenby area and work my way back, which I did. I don’t see much has changed and I don’t see it changing over the next 40 years either.

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