GREEN Party members have raised concerns over a ‘decaying eyesore’ at a major junction in the town.

The Warrington and Halton Green Party says the site next to the roundabout linking Kingsway to Farrell Street in Howley has been turned ‘Warrington’s leading landscape eyesore’.

This plot – situated between the Kingsway Bridge and the Warrington Ambulance Station – has been used in order to house boats recently, with activists stating that ‘what used to be wild green space is now a storage yard for decaying boats and equivalent to fly-tipping’.

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Greens also worry that the vessels could be ‘leaking damaging chemicals’ and are ‘dismayed at Warrington Borough Council’s inaction’.

Branch leader Lyndsay McAteer said: “I pass this spot a lot as I use Farrell Street to go west from the town, and this damaging eyesore is just getting worse.

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“Our Green Party is made up of people who are passionate about saving Warrington’s green spaces which are rapidly being built on by developers.

“The planning chiefs do not care because green spaces do not make money and they are failing to pursue lawful enforcement action against environmental criminals.

“No action has been taken at this site, other than to let more boats to be towed onto what looks like a graveyard for boats.”

The same land was previously at the centre of a controversy in 2014 when its owner was ordered to dismantle an unsightly wall of tyres which had been erected.

Warrington Guardian: The tyre wall

Greens spokesman Stephanie Davies said: “It looks like an inland boat yard with beached, dilapidated pleasure craft.

“I clearly remember the time of the tyre walls debacle and how long it took before the owner was forced to act.

“Surely Warrington Borough Council should be taking enforcement action now to protect the local environment and get the boats removed?

“We don’t want inaction to lead to any damage.”

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Warrington Nature Conservation Forum chairman and fellow Green member Geoff Settle added: “As chair of the WNCF I complained about the tyre wall in 2014 along with many other people.

“The landowner acquired the land and proceeded to rip the heart out of the place.

“I was horrified at what I saw when I went to investigate.”