Visitors to Formby Beach hit with £400 fine warning

Monday, August 29, 2022

Formby Beach is extremely popular beach in Merseyside. This beach side is popular with visitors on summer days, weekends and bank holidays.

Formby Beach is often named as one of the country’s best beaches, its stunning sand dunes stretch for miles, with hundreds of acres of woodland beside it. Day-trippers from near and far flock to Formby for a dip in the sea, or to stroll along the sand. Formby Beach is ideal for families, with a large car park, picnic areas and way-marked paths to the beach, dunes and woods. The high dunes afford excellent views across the Irish Sea and on clear days after rain, even the mountains of Cumbria can be seen.

The coast here is undergoing erosion and the tides often reveal prehistoric mud layers, some of which contain human and animal footprints. Look out for these the length of Formby Beach from Lifeboat Road northwards of the National Trust property.

The dune slacks are important for the Natterjack Toad, a nationally endangered amphibian. The many different habitats around Lifeboat Road provide homes and food for a wide variety of insects including moths and butterflies and for birds. The woodlands are managed to improve the habitat for our native Red Squirrel.

Lifeboat Road is an excellent place to start your exploration of Sefton’s Natural Coast. The 150 acre (60ha) site has a wide sandy beach, high dunes, furrowed grassland (former asparagus fields) and a belt of pinewoods.

National Trust, which owns the site, urges visitors to take litter home or use the large car park bins. And those coming to enjoy the area must also not bring barbecues to the beach or light fires anywhere on site.

Anyone who takes a barbecue to Formby Beach could be hit with a £400 fine from Sefton Council. Barbecues are strictly not allowed, the council says, due to the potential fire risk, injuries caused by discarded barbecuing kits and potential damage to habitats.

In 2020 a little boy was left temporarily unable to walk after his foot “melted like wax” in a barbecue accident at the beach. Nine-year-old Will Tyler also needed a skin graft after he stepped on hot sand where a disposable barbecue had been.

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