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Blakeney NNR future in question

Those of you who have visited the National Trusts Blakeney National Nature Reserve on the North Norfolk coast will realise how precious it is (or perhaps now ‘was’) as a wildlife and faunalfauna The animals characteristic of a region, period, or special environment habitat. Sadly the severe North Sea tidal surge of Thursday 5th December […]

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UK weather: British coasts suffer years of erosion in ‘hours’ of storms, says National Trust

From the Independent 21st February 2014: Some of Britain’s most famous sections of coastline have suffered years of erosion and damage in just a few weeks, or in some cases hours, as a result of the winter storms, the National Trust has said. The high winds and waves that have repeatedly battered the UK have […]

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Impact of the North Sea Surge on the East Anglian Coast

The devastating North Sea Surge along the Norfolk and Suffolk coast in December wrought serious damage to many homes by wave overtopping, breaches to those sea defences that were present and underminement of the ground that residences stood on where there were only naturally formed marram dunes. Five bungalows were undermined and destroyed at Hemsby, […]

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Forthcoming EA Meetings

The Environment Agency are inviting all those impacted and concerned with the catastrophic December North Sea Surge that inflicted such massive erosion and flood damage to so many businesses, homes and wildlife sites along the East Anglian Coastline to a Q & A session at Great Yarmouth Town Hall from 2.30 – 7.00 pm on […]

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Coming Environment Agency Presentations

The Environment Agency invites all those impacted by the catastrophic December North Sea Surge that inflicted such massive erosion and flood damage to so many businesses, homes and wildlife sites along the East Anglian Coastline to a Q & A session at Great Yarmouth Town Hall from 2.30 – 7.00 pm on Friday 31st January. […]

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Portrait of a coastal nature reserve in Suffolk

Matt Shardlow writes in The Guardian, 25th December 2013: “The Dingle Marshes reserve is a flat expanse of reeds and rushes nearly half a mile wide and running a mile along the coast. Behind the ridge are a string of saline lagoons — a rare habitat, home to some very special little anemones, shrimps and […]

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Major North Sea Surge impacts Hemsby

The biggest North Sea surge since 1953 hit the East Anglian Coastline overnight on 5th December, resulting in flooding, loss of habitation and much damage to the homes at Hemsby Marrams, when the high tide brought in waves to further erode the dune foundations they were built on. A deep barometric low off eastern Scotland […]

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Norfolk Sea defence scheme abandoned

The long awaited £3.9 million sea defence scheme promised to shore up sea defences and so protect some 200 homes from the sea on the east coast of Norfolk has been thrown out due to a shortfall of over £3 million pounds. It was to have extended the existing rock berm from the Caister-on-Sea sea […]

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Southwold Beach and cash loss

At a cost of £8.5 million groynes were placed in front of Southwold town beach and Easton Marsh between 2005 and 2007 to put into practice a scheme designed by Halcrow that was predicted to maintain and build the beach to keep the drop from the promenade to less than 4 feet. The groynes were […]

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Surrender to the sea on the South Coast

The plan to aid and abet the loss of a huge area of the Manhood Peninsula (between Portsmouth and Worthing on the South Coast) to the sea and placing a 7km new defence against the sea 2km further inland is soon to be completed in a £28m plan by the Environment Agency. The EA Flood […]

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Sea view of Hemsby DIY defences

This view of Hemsby’s shoreline, taken by a Caister fisherman offshore, shows how far the white encased concrete blocks reached until funding and approval for continuing the line becomes possible. The test now is to determine whether they will stand up to the aggressive waves expected over the winter. If they appear to do so, […]

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Further progress at Hemsby

The home-made concrete blocks to help protect the dune base are progressing south along the beach from Hemsby Gap to Newport, funded by the site owner Geoffrey Watling Ltd. If this trial run proves to be successful, the £18,000 raised by Save Hemsby Coastline will be used to buy and install more blocks running all […]

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Further erosion at Hopton

Additional costs have arisen to try to combat Hopton dune erosion following further storm driven waves and seabed levelling, with the sea coming over the revetments to cut into the sandy cliff face. The cost of emergency cliff and dune repairs has now reached £3m due to the most recent battering as the latest damage […]

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World War Two uncovered

This latest picture taken by Stephen Mole shows the Second World War sea defences which were buried deep in the dunes by the army in 1945 and further covered by even more sand with beach accretion prior to offshore dredging, now exposed by massive beach and dune destruction. The steel poles once carried swathes of […]

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Progress to save Hemsby coastline

In the light of the government’s failure to continue to protect so many vulnerable and valuable stretches of our coastline by using the machinations of the Shoreline Management Plan (that placed Hemsby into the ‘Managed Retreat’ category, i.e. do nothing) local people have organised the setting up of ‘Save Hemsby Coastline. See our 14th May […]

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Erosion Sculpture at Hemsby

The ongoing and increasing erosion at Hemsby, Norfolk, is not entirely gloom-and-doom, as some starkly beautiful patterned scenes can be produced when rough seas coupled with surges undermine the dunes and export the beach and cliff sand to the voids created by continuing offshore aggregate dredging. Here below is such a dramatic scene, a copyright […]

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Happisburgh still eroding

As the main focus has been on the recent Winterton to Hopton mass erosion, we haven’t had much mention of stricken Happisburgh lately. That has a double whammy, inasmuch as not only do they continue to suffer erosion of the beach sand allowing the waves to reach the cliff base, but also ‘slippery’ cliffs. The […]

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Emergency measures to protect erosion-hit Hopton cliffs

In the hope of securing the cliffs at Hopton-on-Sea a second shipment of Norwegian rocks is being placed in front of 200m of the cliff to strengthen areas where the revetment’s sheet piling has failed. Each rock weighs in at between three and six tonnes. In all there will be a total of 9,000 tonnes […]

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Concrete plan to save Hemsby from the Sea

  Hemsby beach has been subject to intermittent erosion ever since large scale offshore dredging has been ongoing since the 1970’s at the rate of over 10,000,000 metric tonnes of take every year. Over seventy bungalows have already been lost along with 150 metres of fronting dune over the last 20 years. Prior to dredging, […]

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Video of Hemsby coastal erosion

A short Anglia TV video showing the ongoing erosion at Hemsby Beach may be seen here.

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