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 deserves to be challenged. We hired international expertise and looked at their proposal and its justification.
Nothing stacks up.
The road is simply not needed on the grounds that are claimed. PCC and their consultants, Atkins Realis, who are in receipt of £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
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 overtopping drainage back to seaward, a safewalkway and 'active travel path' and 'Gabion block' beach access steps.
Despite there being a statutory obligation under Welsh Government guidance to consider the cheapest and most effective solution available the project team has refused to consider this 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 us £2,300.00 plus two additional consultant reports. We estimate that we need £3.500.00 to get it in.
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.
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 contrusction 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.
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 unecessary destruction
* save £40 million of public momey 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