A disabled woman says she doesn’t “feel safe” walking on a beach at the centre of a “civil war” dividing a town.
Charlotte Smith, 53, says the growth of vegetation on Hoylake beach makes it difficult to walk on due to her eyesight. The row over the beach has been going on since 2019 when Wirral Council stopped spraying weed killer and clearing the beach after being threatened with legal action and an unlimited fine.
It has split the town into two camps with very different visions for how the beach should look. A protected area, the beach is considered likely to develop into sand dunes with the council developing two options with Natural England, a government body, on how to manage it in the future.
