Lyme Regis Management
- Created by: Frankie Farr
- Created on: 19-05-18 12:14
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- Coastal Features and Management - Lyme Regis
- Issues
- Unstable Cliffs
- Powerful waves from SW cause rapid erosion
- Forshore erosion has damaged/destroyed many properties
- Sea walls have been breached many times
- How has it been managed?
- The Lyme Regis Environmental Improvement Scheme was set up in the early 1990s to provide long-term coastal protection and reduce the threat of landslips
- Engineering works were completed in 2015
- Key Features
- Phase 1+2:
- new sea walls and promenades
- cliffs stabilised
- extension of rock armour to absorb energy
- Creation of wide sand and shingle beach to absorb energy
- Phase 3
- Didn't go ahead - costs outweighed benefits
- Phase 4
- New sea wall for extra protection
- Cliffs stabilised to protect homes
- Total cost : over £43 million
- Phase 1+2:
- Success
- Positive Outcomes
- New beaches - inc. visitor no. and businesses doing well
- New defences withstood stormy winters
- Harbour is protected
- Negative Outcomes
- Increased no. of visitors -> congestion and litter
- The new defences may spoil landscape
- New sea wall might interfere natural processes and cause problems elsewhere
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