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 […]
» Coastal Defences
- Further erosion at Hopton
- World War Two uncovered
- Progress to save Hemsby coastline
- Erosion Sculpture at Hemsby
- Shoreline Management Plan in basic terms
- Local people plan DIY coastal defences for Hemsby, Norfolk
- Emergency measures to protect erosion-hit Hopton cliffs
- Concrete plan to save Hemsby from the Sea
- Emergency Sea Defences at Hopton
- 1953 – a lesson that needs memorising
- Legacy of the great sea flood of 1953
- Flood Defences ‘should be top priority’
- Adapting to a Changing Coast
- Invitation to ‘Suffolk Coast Against Retreat’ AGM 23rd March
- ICE prioritises Flood Defence for additional capital spending
- Flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes – Programme of works 2013/14
- Aerial Coastal Photography
- New exhibition recalling the Norfolk Sea breakthroughs
- Coastal protection tree planting scheme in Norfolk gets the green light
- Recent Coastal Loss of Norfolk
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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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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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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In April 2013 Richard Steward of the Blyth Estuary Group (BEG) presented the following easily understood explanation of the Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) and it’s effect at his presentation to the residents of Walberswick, Suffolk, just across the Blyth Estuary from Southwold. “The Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) is the means by which the Environment Agency […]
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Mike King, Marinet member, reports in his latest newsletter, titled: “Progress of the Campaign to save the Newport and Hemsby to Winterton Norfolk Valleys Area of Natural Beauty (ANOB) from Progressive Coastal Erosion.” “On 24th April 2013 a packed meeting at Hemsby (Norfolk) village hall on the severe erosion of Hemsby beach and sand dune […]
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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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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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Three Hopton Holiday Village caravans had to be suddenly moved back from the crumbling erosion undermined cliff top at Hopton (North Suffolk Coast) and emergency measures rapidly instituted. A 200 metre line of massive Norwegian rocks left over from the Felixstowe sea defences have started being placed in position along the cliff base by a […]
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A 1977 Anglia TV documentary depicting the damage and destruction wrought by 1953 North Sea Flood when the sea broke through the ailing defences at Sea Palling in Norfolk can be seen on the East Anglian Film Archive. It shows the aftermath and interviews some of the survivors telling a lesson our authorities with the […]
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It was exactly sixty years ago, in 1953, following the great North Sea Surge when the East Anglian dune defence system was broken through and three hundred people drowned. The government of the day resolved ‘never again’ and promptly set to work installing defences. But they had said the same thing following the 1938 Horsey […]
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From the 4th April WaterBriefing Newsletter 2013 comes the news that Conservative MP Dominic Raab, speaking in a House of Commons debate on flood defence and insurance, said that the current negotiations on flood insurance shed broader light on the UK’s wider environmental policy and asked if the Government had its priorities right. He questioned […]
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Paul England recently sent to MARINET the following blog under ‘In Praise of a Life Turned Upside Down’ as an interview with Roland O’Brien. It tells the equally important human, moral, ethical and emotional impact of the Shoreline Management Plan as distinct from all the technical data and news that we regularly and normally list. […]
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You are cordially invited to the 2013 Annual General Meeting of the Suffolk Coast Against Retreat organisation (SCAR) to be held at the Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew on Saturday 23rd March at 10.30am, with coffee from 10am. The Guest Speaker will be Sir Bill Callaghan, Chair of the Marine Management Organisation with Rt. Hon. […]
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is calling for additional capital spending on flood defence infrastructure if additional funding is available in its budget submission to the government. They have long argued that there is a strong case for reallocating spending from revenue budgets into capital investment, giving immediate priority to flood defence infrastructure. Although […]
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Richard Benyon, Minister for DEFRA, responsible for allocating central government funding to schemes that protect houses from flooding or coastal erosion, announced in Written Ministerial Statements on 7th February 2013 the allocations for Flood and Coastal Erosion management schemes and works that will take place during 2013 and beyond. The Environment Agency have these commitments […]
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Those fighting to maintain their coastline, businesses and housing may wish to employ aerial photography to provide evidence of the decline of your beaches, defences and dunes. The cost of overflying an aircraft to perform this can be quite formidable, but the operation can be accomplished by a ‘drone’ under the control and command of […]
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Following on from the successful ‘The Raging Sea – Lost Villages’ event held at Waxham Barn over the August Bank holiday weekend when nearly 4000 people attended over the 3 day period, the Raging Sea organising committee are inviting all to the forthcoming event. ‘The Raging Sea: The Floods Remembered’ – A special event commemorating […]
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At a public meeting entitled “Fighting Coastal Erosion and Climate Change” held in Happisburgh Village Hall on 14th June 2012, a pilot demonstration of a natural, economical and sustainable option for coastal defence involving community planting of a bioshield coastal trees, was presented to the local coastal community by registered charity, the FREdome Visionary Trust. […]
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Normally along our North Sea coastline we experience beach sand loss and consequent dune attack from late December to early March, when the powerful northerly winds drive in big waves up our beaches and the undertow takes the disturbed sand out to sea. In late Spring, Summer and Autumn months, the opposite is true. Then […]
