Fishguard's Transition Café is urging its customers to write letters of support, following plans to demolish the café to make way for the Chimneys Link Road.

Transition Bro Gwaun (TBG) took over Fishguard's old Liquor Save store in 2012. The building, which they hold on lease from the Co-op, had been empty for six years and had become badly dilapidated.

It took £23,000 in cash and in kind and hundreds of man hours to transform it into a successful café, which produces healthy affordable meals and has saved 25,000 tonnes of food from landfill in three and a half years.

Recently voted as Welsh runner up in the Observer Food Awards for Best Ethical Restaurant, the café has become a meeting place for several local groups. It provides free craft activities for children during the school holidays, Welsh language drop in sessions and a monthly meeting place for the community police team.

It provides youngsters with work experience and training and is the base for Transition Re-distribution of Food (TROF) which enables a number of other local organisations to make good use of surplus food.

Pembrokeshire County Council has offered TBG the opportunity to move the café into the derelict Ship and Anchor pub. However the building requires extensive and expensive repair work beyond the group's ability, as well as refurbishment and redecoration.

"We believe Transition Bro Gwaun, working in partnership with other organisations, could find funding to make the building fit for purpose," said TBG director, Chris Samra.

"But we do not have the capacity, nor could we find the resources, for the major initial works needed to make it safe and fit for use."

The group is asking Pembrokeshire County Council to either re-consider its plan to demolish the café, or provide it with alternative premises that it can afford to maintain, and/or work with it to find alternative funding.

"If we have no building, much of what we have achieved over the past few years will be lost," said Chris.

She urged anyone who has used the café in any way to send TGB a letter or e-mail of support by November 30.

"To ensure Transition Cafe and community hub continues in a fit for purpose building we need to show how our community uses Transition Café," said Chris. "However you've benefited from Transition Café please include details in your letter."

Letters can be delivered to Transition Café, 32a High Street, Fishguard, SA65 9AR or e-mailed to transitioncafefishguard@gmail.com.