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Earby residents oppose bridleway plan
RESIDENTS are fighting to save an Earby beauty spot from being spoiled by the creation of a bridleway.
Lancashire County Council are proposing the bridleway run along Dark Lane from a footpath to the county boundary.
But residents are worried about the impact this would have on the adjoining meadow and nearby Three Acre Clough, a biological heritage site teeming with wildlife.
Mrs Susan Beresford, who lives near the site said: "This is a beautiful area in Earby full of mature trees, rare species of plants and animals including deer and owls.
"Dark Lane is a corridor for wildlife and hasn't been used for about 60 years. It is blocked off at either end to stop animals ending up in the middle of town."
She added another concern that a bridleway in Dark Lane would be unsafe for horses. "It would attract cyclists on dirt bikes and youths on mini motorbikes, if horses met them on the bridleway they would have no where to escape to."
Chairman of Earby Parish Council, Chris Tennant agreed it would be a "travesty" to destroy the beauty spot, especially when there was another bridleway, Sandridge Clough, near by.
Coun. Morris Horsfield proposed that representation should be made to Lancashire County Council against the creation of the bridleway along Dark Lane to protect the nature corridor as well as the health and safety of horses and riders.
"There is so much effort going on to create nature sites like this, why destroy one we already have?" he said.
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