Sir,

The good people of Tenby and its environs are a caring community, generous of spirit and have a firm belief in fair play.

There is, however, a feeling abroad that those lovely people at the Avenue Centre are being harshly treated by Pembrokeshire County Council who, I understand, informed them, in a shocking, second hand, underhand way (they heard it on the radio in a bus) that not only were they going to be dispossessed of what they know as home, but left with feeling that their family would be broken up and farmed out like evacuees or refugees from a conflict. If such were the case, it would be a conflict of that county council’s making.

Now, the public at large at this time think they (rightly or wrongly) smell a rat! To a man, of the many I have spoken to, not one has expressed any belief in the ‘consultation’. They are of the belief that the consultation is a sham a put-up job and that “they have already made up their minds.”

So it seems it’s up to Pembrokeshire County Council to prove us all wrong, do the right thing. Let them keep their home and family together; shouldn’t be too difficult, I would have thought, since it is widely believed that Pembrokeshire County Council is their landlord and if that is the case and they are put out of the Avenue Centre, then it is because Pembrokeshire County Council choose to do it, not because they have to do it.

And finally dear frustrated and concerned reader, do you not think it is about time that that same county council came completely up to date and learned that by involving the public at large in any planning at the very outset, then you would get a more rounded, caring and fair outcome.

Whereas at the moment, as things stand, we have every reason to be very afraid.

Ken Fryer,

7 Seascape,

Tenby.