Plants are being cleared off a beach in Wirral after beach management stopped in 2021. In 2022, Council was given permission again to rake a small area of beach in the town "to provide a clean, litter free area of beach" but this did not include any removal of vegetation that had grown since permission expired in 2021. In July 2023, was given in near to the town’s marine lake.
However this was subject to permission being granted for the use of diggers and tractors on the beach by the Marine Management Organisation. The local authority said it has now been given all the necessary permission for the work to begin with some praising the move. West Kirby councillor Andrew Gardner pointed out a video they shared had been played more than 8,000 times on , adding: "This is the first step in returning amenity beaches to West Kirby and following the Labour Party's moment of madness to halt beach management.
"The engagement we have had with this is off the scale and Natural England need to take note However the move has been criticised by some on social media concerned about the impact on protected wildlife habitats in the Dee Estuary. Josh Styles, a botanist, on social media platform X said: "a beautiful place within a globally designated site of importance for biodiversity with potential for European Protected Species" was "now destroyed." "We really are at a serious point of natural catastrophe in Britain.
We have got one in six species at risk of extinction," adding: "We have a d.