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Peace campaigners accused MoD of incompetence over consultation on controversial new radar station
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PEACE campaigners in Wales accused the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of incompetence today after the department’s online link for public consultation about a controversial new radar station was unavailable.

Pembrokeshire Against the Radar Campaign (Parc) is opposing the building of a deep-space radar installation at St David’s in Pembrokeshire and has said the link to an online form for public feedback was broken.

A Parc campaign spokesman branded the MoD “amateurish” and “incompetent” after the department gave two separate contradictory explanations as to why the website link had stopped working.

The spokesman said: “The MoD’s handling of this engagement process has just gone from bad to worse.

“First, they got the names of our towns wrong, then they put on a consultation it’s fair to say was widely described as a shambles. 

“But now, when we as residents get together to send the feedback they wanted from us as a community, they take their form off the internet altogether.”

An MoD spokeswoman told the Star that the reason the link to the survey was not working was they had received more responses than expected and that the department needed to upgrade its subscription to a business account.

The spokeswoman then said that was incorrect and that the link was affected by a technical issue.

She said: “The survey link was briefly affected by a technical issue but is up and running and no feedback has been lost.”

Parc was launched in May this year to oppose the proposed deep space radar installation in Pembrokeshire.
 

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