Another Tenby councillor has called time on their role on the Town Council.

Cllr Jason Rossiter resigned ahead of the weekend, leaving the Town Council looking to fill yet another position.

“Following the resignation of Mr Jason Rossiter due to increased work pressures, Tenby Town Council now has a casual vacancy in the South Ward,” stated the Town Council on its Facebook page.

“Any 10 electors in the South Ward have the opportunity to ask that the vacancy be filled via an election.

“If after 14 working days (which excludes weekends and Bank Holidays), 10 electors do not request an election, the Town Council will fill the vacancy via co-option.”

A long-standing licensee of Tenby, Mr Rossiter won his seat onto the Town Council’s south ward at last year’s elections, but his resignation comes only a couple of month after five members quit in one evening back in February - including two stalwart councillors who had given over 50 years service between them, one of which was Mr Rossiter’s mother Mrs. Tish Rossiter.

The following day, four of the councillors that stood down (Sue Lane, Tish Rossiter, Tony Brown and Lynn Attewell), said in a statement given to the Observer: “It is with great regret that we felt we had to resign. It was not a decision any of us took lightly. We’ve tried to make it work, but collectively we found it impossible to work with the current regime.

“We found that more and more, proceedings were run by a small cabal, with meetings held that excluded us from discussions and any decision making process.

“Furthermore, financial decisions were made without any knowledge or input of some councillors.

“Collectively, we felt that the current regime was taking us in a direction that we didn’t want to go, which resulted in a split council, leaving the situation untenable,” added the statement.

Following on from that, some of the remaining members of the Town Council (Current Mayor, Cllr Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, new Mayor-elect Cllr Dai Morgan, Cllr Charles Dale, Cllr Duncan Whitehurst, Cllr Trevor Hallett, and Cllr Laurence Blackhall) - hit-back refuting some of the claims made by those that had left, stating: “As remaining councillors of Tenby Town Council, we do not recognise the description of circumstances given in a statement by four councillors who have resigned this week.

“All decision making, including financial, is carried out democratically in the open; is recorded and is publicly available.

“In recent times Tenby Town Council has been doing more on supporting the community and looking at bringing ourselves up to date in line with best practice within the town and community council sector.

“We are sorry that these former councillors feel that they are unable to continue. We are grateful for all they have done for the town and wish them well in the future.”

Before the latest member stood down, the Town Council had been looking to co-opt new members to fill the recently vacated roles, stating at a recent meeting that they were ‘encouraged’ by those showing an interest in joining.

Anyone that has shown interest will be given the chance to expand on why they want to become a councillor at the next full council meeting on May 2.