Regeneration Strategy For Penarth
Replacing Victorian lamposts with modern is detrimental to the character and best selling point of Penarth. The Vale Highways service is a law on to themselves. What is missing here is any impact assessment on conservation and preservation of our heritage and history in Penarth. The conservation officer doesn't need to be consulted on works to road and pavements for some reason. This is not best practice. Conservation areas in Penarth are being shrunk, there is no group defending them. The one conservation officer that the Vale has is under pressure from planning colleagues and failed us. There is a large fund for the arts available but using this towards a new modern pavilion or new park railings etc is wrong. We should preserve and restore the pavilion on Belle Vue Park in a conservation area and I believe there is also a air raid shelter as well that could be also restored. Preserving our Victorian lighting poles, or funding a local history museum in the Turner Gallery w
