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Help Save Newgale Beach Front and Valley
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
Aim
We propose a cost effective alternative to PCC's plan to waste £40 million destroying the Newgale valley and beach front.
STUN, A local residents group, believes that Pembrokeshire County Council's extraordinary plan to waste £40 million pounds of public money on a new road and bridge deserves to be challenged.
We hired international expertise and looked at their proposal and its justification.
Nothing stacks up.
Brandy Brook Valley - A vital haven for wildlife and biodiversity or a good place to tarmac over with an enormous new road and bridge?
The road is simply not needed on the grounds that are claimed. PCC and their consultants, Atkins Realis, who are in receipt of nearly £4 million plus of public money contracts so far (and counting), claim that the sea front road is about to be inundated by the sea. They have been saying this since 2014 - but the sea has not been obliging these last 11 years and they have been forced - endlessly - to repeat a one off picture from 2014 to make their point.
STUN's alternative proposal - safeguarding habitats and existing infrastructure
Our international expert has seen the same evidence as the council and concludes that moving the existing shingle bank 10 metres seaward will give Newgale beachfront and road another 85 - 100 years.
Our proposal adds over-topping drainage back to seaward, a safe walkway and 'active travel path' and 'Gabion block' beach access steps.
It strikes us that it is no small coincidence that the MoD, together with Donald Trump's USA, wish to build a massive military Space Radar base in west Wales at Brawdy. Building this base - according to their own documents - requires large construction lorries to pass along Newgale seafront every few minutes for 2 years.
Many local residents are asking if the real reason for the enormous new road and bridge is tied up with building this foreign military base.
STUN's alternative proposal
Despite there being a statutory obligation under Welsh Government guidance to consider the cheapest and most effective solution available, as well as solutions that maintain or make better use of existing infrastructure, the project team has refused to consider the STUN option. We have repeatedly asked the project to consider it - and now find that the only way to get them to do so is to submit our own planning application.
Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park Authority have said that this will cost STUN £2,300.00 plus two additional consultant reports. We estimate that we need £3.500.00 to complete the reports and submit the proposal.
If we raise more than our target we will use the extra money to run community wide genuine consultation - something most residents do not feel has happened yet.
The planning application, including the design and access statement, is ready to submit. We just need to raise the funds to do so.
We seek to raise enough money to submit our planning application to Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park Authority.
Our plan will:
* protect the beach front and road for another 85 - 100 years
* save Brandy Brook valley from unnecessary destruction
* save £40 million of public money for the NHS or Social Care
* make it much harder for Military Chiefs from Westminster and Washington to take control of the St Davids Peninsular
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made