The town of Great Yarmouth did not exist until the first few precarious fishermen’s cottages were built in the year 46 AD. Prior to this it was an intermittent tidal sand bank off the mouth of the River Yare, which a supply of sediment drift from the North and material from the river built up […]
Coastal Erosion - Marinet
- The demise of Scroby Island
- More Coastal Hazards emerge
- Coastal protection tree planting scheme in Norfolk gets the green light
- Beach Erosion at Pagham, West Sussex
- Coastal Loss at Winterton, Norfolk
- Long Standing Unique Norfolk Area of Natural Beauty at Risk
- Recent Coastal Loss of Norfolk
- Brave Bryony fights back!
- ‘Strategy for the Future’ on Suffolk Erosion
- Change in North Norfolk Coastal Management Policy
- Lowestoft sea wall protection work under discussion
- Government’s Water Bill fails to address challenges
- Video of Norfolk & Suffolk Erosion
- Easton Bavents erosion homes plan comes under fire
The increasing serious loss of sand cover of our Norfolk beaches has produced a further hazard to beach users and swimmers, in that the long buried steel bases of World War II shoreline defences and the base of abandoned non-maintained sea defence groynes have been uncovered, leaving sharp metallic spikes, invisible to the unwary. […]
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. […]
The concern on beach erosion came to Parliament on 25th October, duly reported by Hansard under ‘Oral Answers to Questions – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Environmental Protection (Home Security) (25th Oct 2012) at theyworkforyou website Millionaire landowner Richard Benyon, MP for Newbury is Wildlife Minister Under Secretary of State for DEFRA, the Department for […]
The following aerial photograph taken by Mike Page (his copyright) shows the southern end of the Great Winterton Valley AONB, from Winterton-on-Sea (top) to Hemsby Gap (bottom) as seen at high tide on 13th May 2004. The Winterton Beach Café, still there thanks to North Norfolk Council’s earlier protective action in placing the undermined WW-II […]
A long standing Unique Norfolk coastal dunes area now at risk by recent Coastal Erosion The Winterton Valley an established area of natural beauty (AONB) for the last century and an established SSSISSSI Site of special scientific interest is now at risk of total loss to future generations due to the recent significant erosion of […]
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 […]
Determined Bryony Nierop-Reading is the only remaining permanent resident left near the decaying cliff top on Beach Road at Happisburgh following the demolition of nine adjacent homes last month, although her home moves ever nearer to the cliff edge due to the total lack of sea defences, which were allowed to decay and not replaced. […]
The article by Tom Potter ‘Thorpeness: Erosion seminar hears strategy for future’ that appeared in the East Anglian Daily Times on October 5th gives good insight into the thinking (if that’s the right word’) of those dealing with coastal erosion strategy. We repeat it here in full, and follow it with a response sent to […]
North Norfolk District Council has changed the way by which the North Norfolk coast is managed by instituting a new integrated approach that has just been approved by NNDC councillors at a meeting of the full council. Around £65,000 of the money left over from a European Pathfinder coastal help scheme, plus the Coastal Erosion […]
Anthony Carrol describes in the Lowestoft Journal of Wednesday 10th October 2012 how Waveney District Council’s development control committee will be discussing a protection scheme to defend a 170-metre stretch of sea wall backing Lowestoft’s South Beach. Waveney District Council’s cabinet have already agreed to put in £400,000 to construct an improved foundation for the flint sea wall between the South Pier and […]
October’s WaterBriefing tells that key Government adviser, Professor Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford, who sits on the Department of Energy and Climate Change Economic Advisory Committee, says that the floods issue raises an investment requirement comparable to the sewerage one at privatisation and that the Government’s new Water Bill will not […]
Video of Norfolk & Suffolk Erosion The government hype and bribery in giving money to induce those abandoning their erosion threatened homes instead of providing protection and opposing the offshore aggregate dredging that brings it about it can clearly be seen on the first four minutes of the Anglia TV News video. The film also […]
Some considerable discord arose at an extraordinary Parish Council and Reydon District Council meeting with residents when an opportunity was given to people to air their views about a potential housing scheme that could see families in erosion-threatened Easton Bavents moved to nine new properties at Rissmere Lane East, Reydon. The tabled plan claimed to […]
