Dear editor - I recently attended an open day to view the plans of the Martello Quays Development for Pembroke Dock, and to be frank, I was not impressed with what I saw.

I am not against the development, Pembroke Dock is crying out for help, it's just that this is inappropriate and will be counter-productive.

This development is basically a rich person's housing estate with parking for their boats.

Try as I might, I could not get an answer as to the projected cost of properties, but it was clear there would be no affordable housing.

Gone will be our free open car park overlooking the water, and it will come a pay and display multi-storey car park.

No thought whatsoever seems to have gone into properly integrating the new development with the High Street, to provide a natural progression to or from the development.

Amazingly, this development is being seen as an alternative holiday destination to Tenby.

So where are the beaches and the other seaside town attractions to draw the crowds? It just won't happen.

The most that this development will attract will be day trippers.

With Western Way acting as an iron curtain, the marina will be elitist, inaccessible and supporting a struggling minimal commercial community selling charity goods and tea and Welsh cakes without value to the town itself.

I'm not a designer or planner, I'm just somebody who has had experience of new developments. I know a flawed design when I see one, and believe me, the Martello Quays is flawed.

Pembroke Dock needs and deserves better than this. We need an integrated development to include the cinema, the family pub, the harbourside shops and the housing to cater for all buyers, but most of all it must be done properly and sympathetically.

Pete Gazzard Donovan Reed Gardens, Pembroke Dock.