Pembroke Development by Stealth

A plan from the fifties to demolish the burgage walls and to tarmac the gardens as car parks to the North of Main Street has been resurrected in discussions with PCC Planners by local "businessmen".

In the Pembrokeshire  the traditional  first stage is to degrade the properties so that locals call for their demolition.
THESE ARE ALL IN THE CONSERVATION AREA

Plans from the past ressurected in Pembroke

In all these photographs the bottom is where the town wall used to be.

Pembroke is an almost complete medieval walled town, in the sixties one quarter was "redeveloped" the town wall demolished the gardens tarmaced the high burgage walls demolished.
Now local businessmen have proposed the scheme from the fifties to demolish the North Wall demolish the burgage walls and to tarmac all the back gardens at the rear of Main Street as car parking. "See Previous posts" and the photograph of the hole in the wall between Somerfields and Paddles now being extended by stealth.
These photographs show Pembroke as it appears to visitors, their first experience of what when the Conservation Legislation was introduced into law in the seventies was the most important site for proposed Conservation Area Status in Wales.
THESE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW WHAT HAPPENS TO A WALLED TOWN WHEN "MARKET FORCES" RULE AND PLANNING DECISIONS ARE TAKEN BY "BUSINESSMEN".

Websites, problems for 2010

Free speech and effective local government.
Practical transparency,community involvement, stakeholders all the jargon, these principles are under threat.
Websites which comment on Local Authority decisions praising the good, criticising the bad, and exposing the unacceptable are being threatened by unspecific legal action by Local Authorities.
The letters appear to have a common origin,complaining of the anxiety and distress caused to individual officers. Carefuly written, the threats in the letter saying that individual officers MAY take action but not saying that the Council will take legal action.
Many individuals will be bullied by these letters into not criticising actions of the council in the fear that the council will use their full resources to close down such sites.
To use a phrase from the past "They are Paper Tigers"

Croft Court

This was the site of a semi mature horse chestnut.
When the Cornstore flats were built this tree was clearly shown on the plans. PCC guidelines are clear on the space to be left around growing trees. This is a Conservation Area.
An application was made to remove the tree, this was refused so how do we end up with this mutilation.

Pembroke barrage

This leak of hydraulic fluid has been ongoing