Today's spring high tide and storm surge have damaged the boardwalk at Lifeboat Road and created steep dune cliffs on the beach access path from Victoria Road car park. With further spring high tides occurring tonight and tomorrow, the Rangers will need to wait to assess the full extent of the damage and look at safer alternative access routes for visitors.

Until further notice, for your safety please do not try to access the beach by either of these routes.

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Overtoppings and floods have also been occurring elsewhere. Washing away beach-huts, flooding promenades and harbourfront shops, etc. Check the Tyne, Ilfracombe, St Ives, Whitby, Ventnor and other coastal and estuarine locations for floodings and nocturnal evacuations....Up to a metre's sealevel-rise by 2100, will be very difficult for many coastal areas to adapt to, not least on our own vulnerable low-lying coast.

I blame Bootle Labour for the high tides.

I'm sure there must be an office somewhere in Sefton HQ where they think of 'official' words for things.

How many people have ever used the word 'footway' in normal conversation? Why not 'path'?

Originally Posted by Lamparilla

I'm sure there must be an office somewhere in Sefton HQ where they think of 'official' words for things.

How many people have ever used the word 'footway' in normal conversation? Why not 'path'?

It's National Trust at Formby.

Originally Posted by Alikado

It's National Trust at Formby.

Oh, so I must apologise for the slur on Sefton.

Originally Posted by editor

Today's spring high tide and storm surge have damaged the boardwalk at Lifeboat Road and created steep dune cliffs on the beach access path from Victoria Road car park. With further spring high tides occurring tonight and tomorrow, the Rangers will need to wait to assess the full extent of the damage and look at safer alternative access routes for visitors.

Until further notice, for your safety please do not try to access the beach by either of these routes.

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When I was a kid, my siblings and I spent many a happy hour or so playing and picnicking in the sand dunes without the need for boarded footpaths to get us in there. have we become so soft nowadays that a bit of blown sand stops us getting access to these areas? Okay, I appreciate that the disabled and perhaps some of the more elderly need a firm surface, but to close the dunes off completely seems a bit of an overkill to me.