Old Pennar School - to be replaced by modern blandness?

The photographic montages below show Old Pennar School form various positions on Treowen Road.

The old and well known landmark and the new unimaginative blandness.

If you consider the new to be a poor replacement for the old, or if you think that the bats and swifts deserve better treatment, then please write in you comments to Pembrokeshire County Council by 13 May 2015. Application: 14/1098/PA

If you have a constructive alternative plan that will keep the old school building, it would be interesting to hear it.

Demolition is unacceptable and not necessary.

See here for details of how to do this.

A few details about how the images were obtained can be read at the end of the post.

More images and comment to follow over the next couple of days.

The View from the NNE

Old Pennar School from Treowen Road, from NNE.

3D Model 15 Dwellings on site of Old Pennar School from
Treowen Road, from NNE. 

The view from SSE

The Street View from Treowen Road looking towards
Old Pennar School from the SSE

The same viewpoint,  from Treowen Road looking towards 
the Old Pennar School development from the SSE

The two images above superimposed to show the relationship between the old and the new(?).

The View from the East

A note about the images.

Using the information on the Pembrokeshire County Council planning portal, 3 dimensional models of each of the buildings were constructed using SketchUp, a freely available piece of 3D modelling software.

The interrelationship of each of the buildings was quite difficult to realise as there was no block plan of the entire proposed development site available for scrutiny on line. The relationship of the new buildings to Treowen Road was not easy to appreciate for a similar reason. Such plans may well have been submitted, but were not available to a wider public on line. Likewise, details for Plot 5 were not available, other than the footprint of the proposed building. It may be that I have missed something!!

Once the model had been completed, it was inserted into Google Earth Pro, with care being taken to "clamp" the model to the Google Earth Ground surface. It is likely that the terrain model on Google Earth under - represents the true height of the ground that the school is built on, as the ground level seems to have been "made up" at some time. Consequently the new buildings may not be shown as high as they might be in reality.

Google Earth Pro offers the facility to compare views from Google Street View with those of models inserted into Google Earth. An invaluable aid to comparison.