I READ with interest the article entitled Penarth is the best place in Wales to live.

A photograph of the new sea front development was included. The article described Penarth as a Victorian town with a lovely sea front, houses with sea views, two parks and high schools.

If you can afford a property with sea views, the chances are that you will have a car so will not have to walk on the terrible pavements. (I have tripped and fallen many times.)

You will not notice the overflowing dog waste bins outside people’s homes. Parking is horrendous with drivers being allowed to park anywhere - on double yellow lines, junction lines, corners and on pavements.

Coaches for Stanwell School park in Archer Road partly on the pavement. Council workers then come along and tarmac over the crumbling paving stones.

The town centre consists of charity shops and eateries. There are two or three convenient shops for groceries but none carry a full stock so you have to get a bit in one shop and then the second and third all the time your shopping bag is getting heavier.

Not funny when you are elderly and/or disabled. Everything else has to be brought out of town.

Apart from Stanwell Road, Cedar Way, Lavernock Road, there is no creditable bus service. In fact some areas have on service at all.

Westbourne Road area is served by a bus every two hours and if one is taken off that is a four hour wait. There are no buses in the evening, Sundays and Bank Holidays so you cannot get to the sea front, the barrage or the bay.

I am sure there are better places in Wales than Penarth. I came to live here several years ago, not out of choice but necessity. If I could afford it I would move tomorrow to somewhere less primitive.

What an embarrassment for visitors when they cannot get a bus to the sea front. In Cardiff, buses go to the bay and in Barry you can get a bus to the sea front.

G Powell,

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