Allegations of children being subjected to bullying at Tenby’s skate park has led to committee members of the facility’s association resigning, it was revealed this week.

Speaking at Tuesday night’s meeting of the town council, Deputy Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown, who has been one of the figures on the ‘Jubilee Play and Skate Park Association’ committee leading a fundraising push to move forward with plans to extend the skateboard park overlooking the South Beach, told her fellow councillors that it was ‘disappointing’ and ‘upsetting’ to hear that children under the age of nine who used the facility were being bullied by Year 6 and 7 pupils who also used the skate park.

“Two committee members of the ‘Jubilee Play and Skate Park Association’ who are also parents of children that use the facility have now resigned because of the bullying up there.

“One of the mothers has even stated that she was subjected to bullying herself by one of these Year 6 and 7 children, leading them to question why they should put the effort in to fundraising for a facility if those are the type of children that it is attracting.

“It seems a gang of them up there take great delight in pushing the younger ones about.

“These ‘bully boy’ actions could completely jeopardise our work on the project to extend the skate park or re-site it, and I don’t know where the skate park committee goes from here.

“The parents of these bullies should take the kids to hand and the teachers from their schools should have words with the parents.

“It’s disappointing and we’re really upset about it all,” she continued.

Clr Paul Rapi said that he hoped the skate park project wouldn’t go by the way side, as he felt that it wasn’t fair to punish everyone for the actions of a few.

“It should be sorted who the ones are responsible, I’m sure the names will be out there, and then speak to the parents, and if the parents are awkward about it, then it will have to become a police matter,” he said.

Clr. Mrs. Brown said that the police were aware of issues in that area, and the town’s PCSO’s regularly visited the site, and quite recently had found things up there that they ‘didn’t want to find’.

Clr. Tracey Evans said that she too had spent time recently at the play park which sits alongside the skate park and on one occasion was ‘absolutely shocked’ by the language coming out of some of the children’s mouths.

“There were a lot of holidaymakers around at the time and it gave a really bad impression. It needs to be stamped out,” she remarked.

“Sadly there are a lot of antisocial issues surrounding the skate park at the moment, and these two ladies that resigned from the committee feel why should they go to the effort of trying to raise over £100,000 to improve the facility for some who don’t deserve to have it,” added the town clerk Andrew Davies.