The Kookaba, Saundersfoot. Picture: Google Street View A Saundersfoot family restaurant catering for diners, not “vertical drinking,” will be allowed to use its rear decking area until 11pm following approval of a licence variation. Extending the licence from 9pm to 11pm, with people to have left by 11.30pm, at the rear of the Kookaba on High Street, would allow for a second sitting of diners, owner Chris Llewellyn told members of the licensing committee on Wednesday (April 14). She runs the Australian themed restaurant with her son Jonathan, and made clear to Pembrokeshire County Councillors that it was a “family dining experience not a drinking establishment for vertical drinking.”
Pembroke Port â A centre of excellence for marine renewable engineering Changes will be made to the business case for the Pembroke Dock Marine (PDM) project which is Pembrokeshire’s part of the billion pound Swansea Bay City Deal. The £60million PDM project is made up of four connected schemes – infrastructure improvements to he Port o of Pembroke, a Marine Energy Test Area (META), a MEECE (Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence) and a Pembroke Demonstration Zone. At cabinet on Monday, February 15, Pembrokeshire County Councillors approved a report outlining delays to the project that had impacted on the ability to access European funding meaning “elements of the original Full Business case are no longer deliverable.”
Cllr David Lloyd “Radical action” is needed to protect communities and keep them “cohesive” as St Davids councillor has said. Cllr David Lloyd has put forward a notice of motion calling for a task and finish group to be set up to “develop a strategy to address the housing needs of the people of Pembrokeshire as a matter of urgency.” “More and more of our people are being excluded from the housing market, impacting inexorably upon the sustainability of our schools, social and sporting institutions, community cohesion and the Welsh language and culture,” said Cllr Lloyd, adding that the “flight form the cities” had been exacerbated by covid-19.