LOCAL authorities currently have no powers to order private landowners to make their lodges safe. A Bolton Council spokesman said: "We can ask firms to tidy up a patch of land but it does not necessarily make them any safer. A company could clean up a lodge, but someone can just as easily drown in a clean pond as a dirty one and our powers cannot extend any further."
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