A 12-hectare site beside the A666 near the Green Arms Road junction has been cleared in the last month by United Utilities.
And police and councillors said the felling programme would have the benefit of discouraging strangers from meeting up for sex at the known 'dogging' hotspot.
Sergeant Mark Wilson of Darwen Neighbourhood Policing team, said the tree felling would help reduce incidents of 'dogging'.
He said: “It’s an on-going problem and very worrying for members of the public.
“It’s far too early to tell if cutting the trees back has had any impact on the dogging situation, but we’ll be paying regular attention to the area.”
13 comments:
Hey- humans make a mess of nature and they do dirty stuff there. There's a lot of complaints and we cannot control that situation- So you know what? We level the place and cover it with tarmac so we have a beautiful natural parking place! There now- 2 solutions to 1 problem!
..... *DONT_KNOW*
Erm, have I missed something? What was the problem they were trying to solve? People go to a secluded, hidden place in the woods to have sex or to watch others doing so. Why exactly is that a problem? Who was being hurt by these people?
its a matter of taste. if i go jogging in the woods i rather not spot (most of the times gay) couples having sex.
But if you encounter those in the woods- would it be your choice to just cut the woods to avoid those annoying folks...?
If you go down to the woods today,
you're sure of a big surprise....
Sorry, it just popped into my head as I read your comment! :)
You're right though, chopping down the trees is a bit extreme, but I'm not sure how else you could stop people from doing it.
jonfen - you certainly lose the ability to go "jogging in the woods" if they are destroyed. what a sad sad display of stupid overkill, it's almost hard to believe in it's stupidity.
a bit exagerated, no ????
what about all the wildlife ? birds & bees & teddy bear's picnics ????
Clearly they haven't gone far enough. I mean, there are lots of trees in the UK, right? People will just move their "dogging" to the next forest. It's time for concerned citizens to rise up and demand that ALL Forests in the UK be cut down!
Or not.
couples that have sex in the open air hate loud barking dogs nearby but hey thats just my suggestion...
What??? I've heard a lot of reasons to cut down tree, but this is a first. Genuinely flummoxed.
Oh, for goodness sake. Let them bonk in the woods, they're not hurting anyone. If it's a place that's known for being a hideout for randy couples, then the locals will go jogging elsewhere and the tourists will have great stories to tell back home.
<span>Damned politicians. Neither them, nor their damned frontiers, nor their democratic system, </span><span>nor their laws, </span><span>nor their damned ignoramous puritanism, are normal. The normal and natural is sex, and trees, and having sex below the shelter of the trees. Damned sons of the earth. We have what we deserve. At least, we are going extinct in half a century. The bad thing is that it's going a painful process, to being boiled in our own grease.</span>
AND YET.....they havent cut down any of the trees along the road where the dogging actually happens. That remains untouched. There is also no mention of all the trees cut down on green arms road about 18 months ago nor any mention of the thousands more they cut down on the Belmont road over the same time period as the current chop!
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