Holderness Coastline-Coastal Management
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- Created on: 26-11-16 11:34
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- Holderness Coastline-Coastal Management
- Hornsea
- Tourism town of 8,000
- A caravan south of the town has used dune regeneration and gabion boxes to protect itself
- Local economy is heavily dependant on tourism
- Over £5.2 million has been invested into the town's protection
- Raising the sea wall
- Installing new groynes
- Tourism town of 8,000
- Mappleton
- Small village of 100
- Rapid erosion caused a £2 million spend on coastal defences
- Granite blocks from Norway were used to make rock armour
- A large rock groyne was also built
- This has caused complaints from farmers south of the town, saying that the groyne has resulted in increased erosion
- Albrough
- Small settlement to the south of Mappleton
- 10 houses abandoned-more to follow
- Council operating a managed retreat
- Withernsea
- Total cost of sea defences at £6.3 million
- A curved sea wall
- Rock armour
- Regular beach nourishment as the natural beach no longer exists
- Most sea defences have been welcomed by tourism industry
- Some people complain they have reduced access to the beach
- Total cost of sea defences at £6.3 million
- Easington
- A large BP terminal handles 25% of North Sea gas production
- £4.5 million spent on rock armour to protect cliff
- Critics argue that only the terminal is protected and does little for surrounding villages
- Spurn Head
- A 5km spit, considered a unique feature of the British Coastline
- Natural habitat for widlife
- Groynes have maintained the spit for the last 100 years
- Without a continual supply of sand and shingle, the spit may erode away
- The families of the one full time lifeboat crew have had to move inland as erosion threatens their homes
- Hornsea
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