ANGLERS will be allowed to return to a Shoebury lake after a 20-year ban on fishing was lifted yesterday.
Southend Council’s Tory leadership agreed to remove the restrictions on the back lake in Friars Park.
The move followed a campaign by anglers and police, who said the presence of a permanent fishing club would help to prevent antisocial behaviour around the water.
Derek Jarvis, the Tory councillor responsible for tourism and culture, said: “I fully support this approach. It is something the police themselves have supported.”
Council chiefs imposed a ban on fishing the lake in 1991 after a swan was killed when it swallowed an angling hook.
Bosses agreed to reconsider after being approached by Jason York, a Shoebury resident, earlier this year.
But 120 residents had signed a petition calling for the ban to stay in place.
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