Sir, Another letter from Graham Hughes and another plea. Graham must be the only Tenbyite who walks around his town with eyes open and asks questions. To date he has had no answers. With regard to the current landslip above the North Walk, the first question has to be, why did it occur? The slip took place because the old face of the cliff had to be beautiful - largely to 'improve' the view from High Street to the North Beach and the harbour. The old trees and shrubs on the face had been planted there very many years ago and for a reason. Someone knew - and I discovered many years ago - that trees were so useful in helping us to control nature. Given the right choice of trees, their roots will find their way into cracks and fissures in the rock face and through the surface slag and, even though the soil is meagre and poor, they will stablise the face. The bulk of the trunks of the trees will hold back the slag behind and above them. As all this is happening, the trees will help in improving the soil below them. So the surface strata is now even better secured if we plant smaller selected shrubs around and below the trees. A larger scale exercise to the securing of dunes. As Graham said, we took away the anchors, we caused the slip, we have left the face unsafe. So why should we complain when it happens again? I dearly hope that we will soon see in detail our future plan and the timescale for the implementing of it.
Ivor Jenkins,
23 Dombey Road, Poynton, Cheshire.