I SEE that the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Cymru, organisers of a competition for Wales’ ‘most attractive and inspiring places’, has announced the ten finalists and, surprise surprise, not one was east of Cardiff. I wonder how the good folk of the Wye Valley must feel at losing out to Merthyr Tydfil town centre and The Hayes in Cardiff, obviously places of greater beauty and more ‘loved’ and ‘inspiring’. RTPI Cymru chairman Peter Lloyd said: “The competition has reminded us of the passion we have for places we love. The finalists, places clearly loved by the public, have been protected, carefully planned or improved by the planning system.” To rub salt into the wound the finalists were announced at the National Eisteddfod, in Abergavenny. Clearly a case of east is east and west is best. Again.
Nigel Corten
Newport
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