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Category Archives: SMP
Sea Erodes Path By Seawall At Seawick – August 2013
Sea has eroded part of path running in front of seawall at Seawick EA response was to put rocks in front of sea wall! This is entire pointless as the sea can not reach these rocks yet. By the time … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters, EA, Groynes, SMP
Tagged EA, environment agency, jaywick, managed realigment, seawick, tdc, tendring district council
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Clacton And Holland Beaches – May 2013
Following Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association meeting on 4 May 2013 Trevor Bright sent some questions to June Clare of TDC. Here are the questions and answers. But first a note about the meeting. Douglas Carswell (local mp) Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters, Climate Change, DEFRA, EA, Groynes, SMP
Tagged breakwaters, clacton beach, DEFRA, environment agency, groynes, holland haven beach, holland-on-sea beach, holland-on-sea sea wall, managed realignment, sea wall between frinton and holland, tendring district council
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Environment Agency Plan For Tendring Coastline By 2105 – May 2013
Page 144 of Essex and South Suffolk SMP, shows Environment Agency’s plan for Tendring coastline by 2105, about half of it will have gone. A curious plan for a body charged with maintaining sea defences. Different colours are drawn on … Continue reading
Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward
On 1 April 2004 Sarah Nason, sometime head of flood management at DEFRA, issued a letter and paper with the title Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward. Basically the way forward was not to maintain the flood … Continue reading
Posted in DEFRA, EA, SMP
Tagged DEFRA, EA, environment agency, Essex, managed realignment, managed retreat, Sea Flood Defences, Tendring, tendring district council, uneconomic sea defences
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Holland Beach Feb 2013 TDC Answers To Trevor Brights Questions
Tendring District Council replies to questions Trevor Bright asked on behalf of Holland Residents Association regarding the proposed sea defense works. You can download TDC reply which runs to 6 pages, or view images I have posted below. Quick Thoughts … Continue reading
Holland Beach Jan 2013 Trevor Brights Questions Prompted By Latest TDC Report
Ten months after the last report TDC publish a 15 page appendix from latest report on the state of Holland Beach. This has prompted the following questions from Trevor Bright a former engineering project manager. You can download a pdf … Continue reading
Is Sea About To Flood The Naze?
Tendring District Council have just announced their plan to renovate the sea front at Holland and Clacton, good thing. But they seem perfectly willing to let the sea wall at the north of the Naze be washed away. I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, EA, Groynes, SMP
Tagged groynes, naze, walton-on-naze, walton-on-the-naze
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Environment Agency Slides Show Sea Walls Don’t Work
Bill Parker who works in Coastal Management for Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils has been using the slides shown below, produced by Environment Agency, when giving talks to show sea walls don’t work. Guess what? Bill and EA are … Continue reading
Holland Haven Sea Wall – Will Tendring District Council Let The Sea Destroy It?
I have been sent a copy of a letter Mike Badger, Engineering Services Manager at Tendring District Council, wrote to some beach hut owners at Holland Haven. Mike writes Following storms in April/May 2011 structural engineers advised the sea wall … Continue reading
Footpath 37 From Island Lane to Mill Lane – A Public Right Of Way
The campaign to stop Environment Agency breaching the sea wall between Quay Lane and Island Lane at Devereux Farm succeeded because there was a public footpath, footpath 36, running along this stretch of sea wall. We were repeatedly told the … Continue reading
