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Published on: 18/07/2017 05:41 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
Adrian Owens from Our West Lancashire has been promised the 'kindest cut of all' in a fight to make west Lancashire tidy before The Open.
After being contacted by a resident concerned by its appearance scarcely a week before many overseas and national visitors will visit or pass through in connection with the Royal Birkdale event, he contacted senior staff and councillors at Borough and County level.
He wrote: "The Open Championship is to be held at Royal Birkdale the week after next. The Borough will be hosting many hundreds of visitors from other countries and thousands more will travel through it on the way to the Links. It must be hoped that some of the 'visitor dollar' will be spent in the hospitality industry in West Lancashire, but with its current appearance they would be forgiven for driving swiftly on.
"Currently, I am ashamed of the appearance of our Borough and the boundary between West Lancashire and Sefton is a stark one as one travels along the main thoroughfares.
"In the remaining time before the start of the golf (a week at most given the busy practice days), what work do you intend to carry out to ensure that, at the very least, the main thoroughfares and entrances to the Borough are presentable rather than their current unkempt; untidy; overgrown; weed strewn and grimy condition?"
In response, the County Council has promised to cut grass and maintain the grounds along 'the advertised diversion route from Junction 3 of the M58 to the Royal Birkdale Golf course by tomorrow and the Borough council is organising street cleansing to follow behind.
Added Adrian: "I had to wring this commitment from the respective councils.
"The current condition of our street scene is shameful and this doesn't address anything other than the single route to the golf.
"How we expect to encourage visitors to linger in our Borough is not explained in the council responses."
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When I phoned the W.L. council about this, they said that the county had asked to take over this responsibility.
When I spoke to the county, they told me they had taken over the task because West Lancs had not done it.
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