Council U-turn over coastal parking restrictions after complaints about litter and visitors openly using fields as toilets By Stuart Arnold, Local Democracy Reporter Camper vans parked on the verge in Cowbar Lane. Picture: Cowbar residents REDCAR and Cleveland Council has backtracked over plans to impose parking restrictions in the village of Cowbar, near Staithes. The council had proposed traffic regulation orders in response to complaints from residents about litter, visitors openly using fields and allotments as toilets and grass verges being destroyed by legions of campervans descending “bumper to bumper” on the outskirts of the village and their owners using it as a free campsite.