The issue has divided the town for more than four years
A divisive issue that has been compared to “a civil war” in a quiet seaside town is set to come to a head tomorrow.
Beach management was paused by the local authority in 2019 following criticism over the use of the weedkiller glyphosate. However, since then, vegetation has spread across the sand prompting uproar from many in the local community who felt a public space was being taken away from them. Ahead of the meeting on April 15, the ECHO went to Hoylake to ask people what they thought. Susan McGechen, who had just come off the beach after walking her dogs Bear and Beau with her husband Keith, said: “This isn’t a beach anymore.
Eddie Pipe who has lived in Hoylake all his life remembers as a child going down to the beach to help clear any grass by hand. Over that time, he said the beach had completely changed as sand levels got higher and higher.
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