Families are fighting to save a caravan park from closure after being banned from staying there for over a year. Natural movement of sand dunes on to the access road of the site means it could be shut for good.
Freshfield Caravan Park in Formby first opened on Victoria Road in the early 1980s and has welcomed generations of families. Sixty families currently have static caravans at the holiday caravan park, which leases the land from the National Trust.
But since March last year, no one has been allowed to access the site to stay overnight due to a ruling made by Natural England. As sand has drifted across the access road into the caravan park from the surrounding sand dunes, it can no longer be cleared “due to the negative impacts this would have on the dunes and its biodiversity."
