Plans for wider gateway to Pembroke Docks
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II South Pembrokeshire District Council is applying to widen the historic gates to Pembroke's Royal Dock to reduce congestion. The gap through the 170year-old pillars is only 3.6m, forcing traffic to pass through in single file.
Coping stones have already been removed from the top of the gate posts because trucks were scraping against them. Now, the council wants the gap widened to 7.7m to allow twoway traffic into the dockyard, which is the main ferry port to Rosslare in Ireland.
The plan is oppposed by Cadw, the Welsh arm of the Government's ancient monument department—it favours a new entrance elsewhere in the dock walls.
Martin Bell, the council's forward planning officer, says: "Freight traffic through the gates has recently doubled with Irish Ferries running more services to and from Pembroke. Reorganisation of the existing entrance would be the best plan." Planning applications are now being considered.