A CAMERA car will be used to enforce a blanket parking ban close to a Lancashire beauty spot whose popularity has ballooned during the pandemic.
Fairy Glen in Parbold saw a surge in visitors using it for exercise in 2020 – and the forest’s new-found appeal has been sustained ever since, with increasing numbers of people believed to be travelling from across Lancashire to take in the scenery.
However, the absence of a car park at the attraction – off the A5209 Sparrow Hill –has resulted in drivers leaving their vehicles in dangerous positions at the side of the road.
The busy route – which runs from the M6 through to the A59 at Burscough – was a 60mph zone along the section close to Fairy Glen until November last year.
The speed limit has since been reduced to 40mph as part of a long-planned change, but vehicles lining the road and straddling the kerb are still posing what Lancashire County Council’s cabinet member for highways and transport Charlie Edwards described as a “serious safety problem”.
The authority has now given the green…
