Future facelift for Meyrick street?

2:38pm Tuesday 18th September 2007

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Meyrick Street, Pembroke Dock may be in line for a facelift if a new planning application is approved by Pembrokeshire County Council.

Stakefield Property Limited, Saundersfoot, has applied for full planning permission to redevelop numbers 15 to 23 Meyrick Street. The plans include residential and retail premises in four blocks.

Architect Willis and Hole Limited, from Narberth, working as agents for Stakefield, has said that this large development will retain and improve the quality of housing on the street.

"The plans include maintaining the original facades of the building and will be a return to traditional shop fronts," said the architect.

The applicant hopes to build four blocks, one of which would be four storeys.

The first proposed block consists of four shops and 11 two-bedroom flats. Further blocks would be behind this block and would be accessed through the existing archways which will be enlarged according to the plans.

The majority of the residential units are divided between three blocks, comprising 21 residential units including one-bedroom flats, two-bedroom flats and maisonettes and two cottages.

County councillor for Pembroke Dock Central Ward, Kate Becton said: "I don't want to be too negative because the development may well bring Meyrick Street back to its former glory.

"But increasingly, Pembroke Dock has problems with parking and traffic congestion. It has to be looked at in context with all the other developments, exponentially affecting parking and traffic, rather than a one-off, potentially interesting development."