The debate over whether 'fairy doors' attached to trees are damaging them has been reawakened on social media.

A post on Witney Spotted Facebook page has suggested there should be a project to restore them.

Last May members of the public removed the doors - wooden doors allowing fairies to travel between their worlds and ours - from trees around Ducklington Lake.

They were concerned about some of the materials used and they way they had been attached.

At the time a council spokesperson said "nails and glue have the potential to damage tree bark in a way that can put some trees under stress and at greater risk of disease".

Witney Town Council's environment team put up notices asking people to get in touch so that they could work together on ensuring materials were environmentally friendly.

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The southern end of the lake, managed by the town council, is a nature reserve, with the grazing land to the east and north classified as an ‘environmentally sensitive area’.

Now a user on the Witney Spotted Facebook page, has asked "if there a project for these lovely fairy doors as a lot were missing and I’d like to restore some."

Megan Allsworth replied: "I did these with my daughter during lockdown…. And they kept getting ripped down, every single day we went and my seven-year-old daughter was so upset."

But Adam Parker said, some of them are "not nailed to rotten trees though are they, putting nails in trees is damaging them".

He added: "I'm not against the idea it's the way that you done it that's the issue."

A spokesperson for Witney Town Council said: "Hopefully this all refers to the fairy doors that were placed during lockdown and no new doors are being added to trees, and people have no expectation of being able to do so."

She said: "Using environmentally safe resources that would naturally decay, means that there would be a natural end of life and no one would need to physically clear the items away. In that way they would be more acceptable to more of the visitors to the area, which is partly nature reserve."

She said the Town Council had not taken away any of the Fairy Doors.

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"The doors that were removed were being removed by nature lovers and other lake users who expressed concern about them not being nature friendly in terms of the way they were attached and the materials used. They reported the doors to our maintenance and environmental team.

"The team assessed the potential impact that nails and glue have and the potential of them causing damage to tree bark in a way that can put some trees at greater risk of disease.

"To avoid any disappointment, the request to contact us still stands if anyone has any expectations of placing any fairy doors around the lake."