With calm, sunny weather forecast we’re expecting both car parks to be very busy today.

You may decide you’ll enjoy your visit more on a quieter day. We’re open 7 days a week all year round.

Here’s some useful information;

🚫 Parking restrictions and fines in place on residential roads.

🚆 Please travel by bike or train, if you can. Plan your trip here bit.ly/41KRd85

📱 Download the paybyphone.co.uk/ app for quick, contactless payment.

🏊‍♀️ No RNLI Lifeguards on duty at Lifeboat Road this weekend.

⚠️The board walk on to the beach at Lifeboat is closed due to storm damage. Please head to Ainsdale beach for wheelchair access.

🚻Toilets are open at both Lifeboat Road and Victoria Road between 10am and 4.30pm.

🌊Check tide times before you visit bbc.in/3nOsG0d

♻️Bring a bag for your litter and pop it in the car parks bins or even better take home with you.

🐸Give natterjack toads a safe space to breed by keeping dogs out of the dune pools.

🐦Help wading birds on the shore rest before their long journey ahead by keeping your distance and not letting dogs or horses run through flocks.

🏖 You can find alternative beaches to discover a short drive or train ride away links below;

Sefton beaches bit.ly/3PJfBBC
Wirral beaches bit.ly/3PInB5Q

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At Thursday’s Council meeting Councillor Mike Prendergast put forward a motion to have the cycle lanes along Queens Road, Hoghton Street and Talbot Street removed.

Most Southport councillors supported the motion. Only Southport’s Labour councillors opposed the motion with the Labour councillors for Birkdale, Kew, Norwood and Ainsdale all voting to keep the unpopular cycle lanes.

Councillor Prendergast said, “It is genuinely disappointing that all Southport councillors were not able to support the call to have the lanes removed. They have proven to be woefully ineffective in encouraging people to cycle, they’ve harmed local businesses and reduced accessibility to town centre services for those who rely on their cars.

The fact is that the way these lanes have been installed and imposed on areas that don’t want them has probably set the cause of active travel back significantly in Southport.

As I explained during the debate, we want to see safe cycling infrastructure in areas where people want it and will use it. We want to see measures taken to help us meet our climate change obligations; Hoghton Street could have been an ideal place to see the installation of EV charging points, for example.

What we are against, and have been from the start, is wasting public money on schemes that hardly anybody wanted. Simply spending a grant from central government because you can without thinking through the consequences is not a sensible way to use tax payer money.

The measures were described as an embarrassment during the meeting, and I agree. The continued refusal of the Sefton Labour Party and Southport’s Labour councillors to recognise this and simply dig their heels in just adds to the embarrassment.

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