For 10 months, the Friends of Redcar group - FRED - has pressed the Environment Agency to clear up rubble and debris
Campaigners are celebrating after the Environment Agency pledged to clean-up rubble from Redcar beach.
For 10 months, the Friends of Redcar group - FRED - has pressed the Environment Agency to clear up rubble and debris.
They said the rubble, both buried and exposed, was potentially dangerous and, if left, would hit Redcar’s tourism trade.
But now the Agency, after ongoing talks with Redcar and Cleveland Council, has agreed to carry out a three day beach clean-up on July 15, 16 and 17.
FRED founder Carl Quartermain said: “It’s the best news we could possibly have and is the reason we set the group up in the first place.
“We’ve banged on about it for 10 months and now they’ve seen sense and are coming back to clear up.”
Mr Quartermain says he walked representatives of the council, agency and contractors along the beach, pointing out the rubble blackspots. He added: “I particularly wanted to show them that there was rubble, then it was clear in front of the commercial section, then there was rubble again.
View gallery Gallery: Friends of Redcar - Beach Action Group beach rubble clean up
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“We aren’t a particularly big group but we are very loud because we believe in what we are doing.
“And for them to be coming for three days with robust machinery shows the extent of the work they are planning to do. They have taken our complaint seriously and good on them.”
Mr Quatermain thanked everyone who had supported the campaign.
He said: “Redcar is turning a corner and FRED is working with the council to improve our prospects as a tourism hotspot with events, activities, exposure of issues and fresh ideas.”
An Environment Agency spokesman said: “We are going to do the work as a gesture to the community.
“This has been an important project and we want everyone to be pleased with it.
“So we are happy to help clean up.”
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