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. But after advertising the orders and carrying out a public consultation the local authority said it had listened to the feedback received and decided not to progress with the restrictions.