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LETTERS
PORTHCAWL REGENERATION
Dear Editor, I attended the exhibition of plans for Porthcawl’s future at the pavilion last week. Obviously the architects have been commissioned to design a housing estate not a premier seaside resort. The parking in the summer months is totally inadequate at present, and by the look of the plans we are loosing salt lake car park completely and it is to be replaced with a two-storey car park at Hillsboro. This idea is total madness. We need at least 70% of salt lake car park saved for residents and visitors to enjoy our seafront. Unless you can walk, cycle or bus to the seafront then it’s going to be a no go area. I like hundreds of other residents and visitors to Porthcawl are disabled and are unable to use buses. How do you suggest we get to the seafront? Is BCBC going to hire special disability buses with hydraulic lifts to transport the disabled from a park and ride to the beach? And what when the rain comes down, are the council going to provide a large covered area on the seafront for all the disabled to queue to be transported back to the park and ride? We want salt lake kept for parking and leisure alone. Why don’t the planners visit Aberavon seafront and try and understand what regeneration means? There is enough land to build over six hundred houses and a school at sandy bay. The BCBC could use the mega-millions they could sell that area for and spend the money on making Salt Lake and Coney Beach a premier seaside resort, with gardens, water park, children’s play areas, picnic areas, crazy golf, skateboard park, outdoor shower facilities etc. Surely there isn’t a councillor in Porthcawl that is happy with the urbanisation of our beautiful seafront. This should be a cross party fight. We are paying high community charges to live in a seaside resort and if the BCBC have their way will be unable to visit our seafront unless we walk, cycle or use buses. So very sad.
Dorothy Bugden, Porthcawl
A VIEW FOR THE FUTURE PORTHCAWL
Dear Editor, Well December was busy! AVFTFP took to the streets and delivered 5000 letters to local residents prompting them to question the CPO’s (application by BCBC) and urge the council to retain more land for the public’s recreational use. Hopefully you received a copy and stated your objections! We hope to hear an update on this within the first quarter of the New Year. Then of course there was the eagerly awaited place-making presentation from BCBC’S regeneration team in the Pavilion. There certainly seemed to be a good turn out. The plans, in our view, were worrying and not at all sympathetic to our beautiful coastal town. Again, we eagerly await further communications from BCBC following the feedback from Porthcawl residents. Finally, the Dragon’s Den event. So many amazing ideas that would really bring life and vibrancy to our seaside town. The planned regeneration has been elevated to The Future Generations Commissioner. We should be able to give you an update on this in the New Year. So for now… a waiting game. We hope you had an amazing Christmas and now we’re super excited to get back on to fighting for Salt Lake in 2022. Join us… Please email avoiceforthefutureporthcawl@gmail.com
Gemma Lewis, Porthcawl
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