Sir,

The column heading in last week's Tenby Observer of the concern at the demolition of the retaining wall above the old lifeboat house should surely have read widespread fury.

Just what are the National Park up to, are they incapable of reading plans?

I have been given to understand that permission for this part of the development was passed 'on the nod' by officials without resorting to the committee. Should this be the case, P45s should surely be in order. I have also been told that CADW did not object. I despair.

The wall may not be medieval, but it is certainly much older than the 1905 boathouse below there; any alteration to which was blocked during the RNLI tenure.

The busybodies of the Georgian and Victorian societies, whose actions effectively prevented the removal of the redundant building, have missed a golden opportunity to muddy the waters yet again.

Breaching this wall has set a dangerous precedent. Just consider the De Valence. One of its problems is the cramped entrance in Upper Frog Street. The obvious solution is an entrance in White Lion Street obtained by cutting a hole in the town walls. How can the Park provide a reasoned refusal to another act of vandalism?

I fear that the National Park will not have the will to force reinstatement as they have done for far lesser transgressions in the past. There is great unease in the town about the entire development.

Arthur Squibbs,

Tenby.