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The Marine Reserves Campaign has its own website at www.marinereserves.org.uk, where you can find more details along with campaigning resources.
The number of MPs who have signed EDM 337 is now  

Coastal Defences and Shoreline Management Plans

Evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group - MARINET has submitted evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group Coastal and Marine Inquiry into deprivation and disadvantage in coastal rural areas.

Report of a meeting of the Solent Protection Society on 23rd September 2008 - concerning the history and evolution of saltmarshes in the Solent, Hampshire, and featuring their role in sustaining biodiversity and coastal defences. Contact details for further information about the role of coastal saltmarshes nationally, as well as in the Solent, are contained in this report.

Correspondence between Mike King (resident of Scratby, Great Yarmouth) and Phil Woolas MP (Minister for the Environment) regarding the proposal by Natural England to allow a vast area of Norfolk to be flooded by the sea.

Tyndall Forum : 'How do we create a Sustainable Coastline?' - That was the title for the Tyndall Centre Forum held at the University of East Anglia on 10th September '08. It was attended by 63 invited guests including MARINET and members of our Coastal Group.

Abandoning the best of Norfolk to the Sea - In addition to the Environment Agencies countenanced loss of the Cley Marshes, by failure to maintain the 500 year old shingle sea defence bank, we now have the abandonment of two more internationally acclaimed wildlife site, the RSPB's Titchwell, probably England's finest bird reserve, and the National Trust Blakeney Point, acclaimed as one of the ten of the UK's finest coastal beauty spots.

Mankind's faltering efforts to protect coastal idylls from raging waves - Jerry Berne of Sustainable Shorelines Inc. sends us this item from the Times Environment News of 3rd May '08. His response follows on.

Felixstowe TV film on beach-build - Peter Waller advises that the work in attempting to restore the seriously dragged-down beach at Felixstowe can now be seen as a short video made by Felixstowe TV here and another film here.

Losing The Broads? - The BBC website has a short film available showing the implications of the threat by the government to cease to maintain the coastal defences that protect the Norfolk Broads and its villages. To see go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7371468.stm

Protecting RAMSAR sites from SMP induced Coastal Erosion - Information on the legal protection of RAMSAR sites if government abandons Norfolk Broads to marine inundation.

Waves of destruction Rising seas are changing Britain's coast dramatically. Norfolk is the first low-lying area to face a stark and cruel new choice - plough millions into doomed defences, or abandon whole villages to the invading waters. This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday April 17 2008

Simple Basic Facts on Erosion

Report on the November 2007 North Sea Surge - More Norfolk Coastline Loss Normally one does not expect North Sea Surges to appear before the end of February. But already we have already experienced one at the end of September and another now a far worse one on 9th November 2007.

Executive Summary of the Norfolk Green Party's comments under the public consultation procedures on Norfolk's Shoreline Management Plan , dated 11th November 2007

Ongoing controversy over the SMP As it still stands, DEFRA's Shoreline Management Plan will mean the abandonment of much of the East Anglian coastline to the sea due to lack of funding provision for adequate defences.

MARINET members' comments on the SMP situation on Norfolk's east coast
Controversy exists in communities along the Norfolk coastline following an "instruction" from DEFRA to Great Yarmouth Borough Council that the Council should accept the current version of the Shoreline Management Plan for Kelling to Lowestoft Ness, Norfolk, or be denied the opportunity to bid for a grant of funding for any sea defences.
MARINET members have accused Defra of blackmail. See below for the full text of the public statements by MARINET members.
Letter from Mike King, (Gt. Yarmouth FOE) to the Eastern Daily Press
Letter from Pat Gowen (MARINET) to Gt Yarmouth Borough Council

DEFRA publishes coastal risk management proposals 'Making Space for Water' - August 2006

Official submission by MARINET in response to DEFRA's proposals - October 2006

Submission by Pat Gowen in response to DEFRA's proposals - October 2006

DEFRA Consultation on Coastal Erosion & Risk Management - Response by Pat Gowen to DEFRA's December 2006 'Consultation on Outcome Measures and prioritisation approaches for flood and coastal erosion risk management' - March 2007

Papers on Coastal Protection - Many papers are produced at conferences, mainly by coastal consultants themselves. Two of these produced at the 2004 Coastal Engineering Conference are of interest inasmuch as they discuss other factors in recognising coastal erosion due to offshore aggregate dredging extraction. Abstracts are provided plus the full PDF reports are available on the links provided at the end of each text.

Beach Recharge - is this policy destroying our beaches and wasting our money?

Why Canute Failed - A Treatise on Sea Defences

Shoreline Management Plans

Our Disappearing Coastline is an original document on the causes and effects of shoreline erosion first written on 24th October 1995 resident on the North Sea Action Group's website. Although in part superseded by later and more topical information, it contains many points of historical value worth study. You may view the document at the NSAG website at http://members.aol.com/ruraleye/gowen4a.htm

DIY Dune System Build your own marram dunes

Graph of Dune Loss at Winterton-on-Sea