A ROW over a Whalley beauty spot was due to be put before Ribble Valley councillors.

Residents of the village were upset because trees had been chopped down and a barbed wire fence had appeared across a popular footpath in Archbishop Wood.

The council's planning and transportation committee members were due to consider enforcing tree preservation orders on the site.

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