Pembroke Castlepond

 

This is Castle pond after 21C have planted reed beds in a once salt water environment they will only survive if the Barrage (illegal man made barrier, Environment Agency) is kept closed. This conflicts with the EU Directive to reopen Pembroke River to migratory fish by 2015. If 21C introduce alien freshwater species to this water as in the Mill pond they should be prosecuted.

Pembroke ponds updates ignorance rules OK

The whole area smells of dog urine  the public lavatories close at 6pm in the touris season so now it smells of the stench of human urine.

tArgricultural run off each time it rainsThis is water used by children for organised canoing This is after C21 have planted the area with freshwater vegetation showing the increased rate of siltation.Several years  of total weedlkiller and frequent mowing has removed all plants from this wide area along the footpath leaving a green concrete dogs lavatory. The tarmac path is one and a half meters wide.More recently planted vegetation showing the rate of siltation. C21 have applied for public money to turn this into an "amenity area" destroying more natural vegetation in a wildlife refuge.

This cottage has been refused planning permission to rebuild compare this with the application to build four houses a hundred meters away.Degraded  polluted of no wild life value. How not to maintain a historic site

Pembroke

Grossly oversize, alien design visualy obtrusive compare with the similar building causing PCNPA problems at the Parrog in Newport.
Apparent storage of builders supplies obtrusive car parking screening vegetation cut down.

Pembroke Pembrokeshire County Council failure

This shows the lack of enforcement of planning Conditions in a Conservation Area
I photograph the site at regular intervals,all that happens is that the owners have put up a sign keep out private road.

East End Square speeding traffic killing pedestrians

Thi is the vision for the pedestrian in the next picture  for pedestrians crossing East end Square to and from the east of PembrokeTaking his life life into his own handsAnother nasty "engineered solution" to the Conservation Area of the historic town of Pembroke (see previous blogs)

REMEMBER we were threatened with legal action by Pembrokeshire County Council for publicising the lack of pedestrian safety in the original plans (which have not been altered) submitted for approval.
The engineered limestone walls are completely unnacceptable to CADW see the next blog PCC can do it if they care they treat Pembroke with contempt.

Orielton Wall

Pembrokeshire bank

Lower wall using local stone and lime mortar

Affordable Housing

There is not and never could be a Legal definition of Affordable Housing. Built examples range from those out of reach of all the local young people to those that are only affordable by huge public subsidies, by local government housing associations and local make work bodies.
Affordable is site specific let alone Parish or County criteria. I am reminded of the early debates about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. A futile exercise.
This is not the answer to local housing problems. Wales has always exported its young,more survive localy than at any time in the past. Does it make for happy successful communities, young people existing on State benefits and make work low paid non jobs.

Coalition Planning Law Changes

Coalition changes announced in Parliament apply to England. Planning is devolved. BUT the annual financial settlements can constrain the Wales Assembly Government and other bodies in Wales without no local  input.
It is important that we are aware of this and critically examine all Coalition Legislation and make our concerns in Wales clearly to the Wales Assembly.
For example 25 "affordable houses".who defines affordable.
This is site specific.
Planning referenda to be held at the same time as local elections. planning meetings are now held monthly with a fixed timetable so the proposals as announced will slow planning.
Many parishes in Wales would be overpowered by twenty five new houses. Who decides about the adequacy of local services.
Who controls consolidation of ground protection of watercourses traffic flow parking and so on.
This is yet another unthought out Policy with unforseen consequences.

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

Today I experienced the extremely unpleasant result of a series of questionable decisions by the Authority.
We have walked down the road to East Block House from the upper road for sixty years. Today the new owners have erected Keep Out Signs and ordered me off their Land.
We asked very politely if we could continue, but were told turn around and leave now, when I asked why we were told "that they had problems with the villagers".
When was the footpath diverted who owned the land at the time.
Why is the vehicle road now locked. Where does the land attached to East Blockhouse finish.

Pembroke Mill Pond LNR

One of the Planning Conditions when these houses were built was that there was to be a ten meter undeveloped strip to be left at the pond edge to safeguard the wildlife.
The trees were felled by the developer on the grounds that "he could not sell the houses without a view of the pond" the householder on the left cleared his strip and has been told by PCC that this has to be replanted.
The owner on the right has since completely cleared the vegetation on his strip,by spraying???. When will PCC enforce the Planning Conditions.

East End Pembroke

Heavy traffic to the Power Station at the start of the tourist season, no provision for pedestrian crossing.When it is completed there will be no provision for pedestrian safety even though the traffic will be speeded up.
We need a blanket 20mph speed limit in urban and residential areas not these outdated retrograde schemes, which destroy the quality of life and degrade the Conservation Area.
There must be traffic lights and a controlled pedestrian crossing.

Pembroke River

Hardcore builders rubbish dumped on an SSI, PCC lease Pembroke River from the Duchy of Cornwall

Freshwater East

A LNR in the National Park, diesel generator audible for a four hundred meter radius

Mill Pond Pembroke

These ferns are on the pond wall,just been sprayed.090610

Total Weed Killer

This is how we appear to tourists, I am sure that this weed killer is illegal. Despite telling PCC that this must not happen for four years running it happens every year. The mosses and bryophytes on the walls of the Mill Pond are killed every year while 21C plant reedbeds to encourage wildlife.