The Pads - a busy footpath from Burscough Road to Greetby Hill - will be temporarily closed over the next few days.
LCC intend to complete the works off Old Boundary Way with the footway damaged by tree roots; the works will remove the trees and roots as well as repair the surface of the footpath.
By early this afternoon, the Blackburn based contractors had removed a good number of large conifers responsible for the path damage.