Businesses along a busy street inside Tenby’s town walls have once again cause to complain regarding what they consider ‘inconsiderate’ road closures that have disrupted their trade, with the council failing to ensure that pedestrian access was maintained for customers.

A temporary three-day road closure came into force on Church Street (from Tudor Square to its junction with Cresswell Street) on Monday (November 19) to allow for new water and electricity services to be installed at a property there.

However, despite the matter being discussed at last week’s meeting of Tenby town council (who notified the local press of the road closures) businesses along that route say that Pembrokeshire County Council didn’t have the ‘decency’ to inform them of the works.

The annoyance shown by the businesspeople affected, comes after a long drawn out battle back in March where some of the same premises were effected for a considerable amount of weeks over chaos caused by roadworks outside their premises, when St. George’s Street and Church Street were closed to traffic to enable electricity replacement and carriageway reconstruction work to take place.

The work which was due to be completed before the the half-term holidays ended up continuing and leading up to the summer period, leaving those effected up in arms, claiming takings were down by 50 per cent as even regular customers thought they were not open due to all the roadworks, barriers and heavy machinery blocking the premises.

Speaking of the latest disruption, Yvonne Uka, of The Lounge 2, said on Monday morning, that nobody from the County Council has had the decency to contact them over the road closures, and the first that some staff knew of the matter was when the signs were erected on Monday morning.

“They have once again blocked the road off completely, and customers can’t access our shop because the footpaths leading from Tudor Square are completely closed, with no pedestrian access maintained whatsoever from that direction!” she remarked.

“Western Power Distribution informed us of the works, but PCC didn’t bother to tell us of the road closures and how it would effect access to our businesses.

“At least if we had known that our street couldn’t be accessed fully, then we could have informed our delivery drivers of the matter sooner to make arrangements with them, and work out an alternative route to get to us to drop off, but not to even keep a footpath open on that section is detrimental to our businesses. “Customers can see our businesses open, but they can’t get to us!

“The winter is hard enough for businesses in Tenby as it is, so to close us off completely along with other premises alongside us, makes it even more difficult, and hard to comprehend, especially with the high business rates we pay in town.

“Once again there has been no consideration given to us on this street by PCC.

“The three day loss of trade, after what happened before the summer, is beyond a joke!” she continued.

The Observer has contacted Pembrokeshire County Council for comment.