1.4.a Sandbanks, Dorset

• Large number of high value properties
• Sandbanks Hotel provides jobs
• Fourth most expensive street per metre squared in the world
• Houses valued at over £10 million
• Apartments valued at over £2 million
• Major tourist attraction, Blue flag award
• Protection for Poole Harbour
• Climate chnge predicts 60cm increase in next 100 years
• £18 million of damages predicted for the next 20 years

• Rock groynes costing hundreds of thousands of pounds each
• Beach recharge
• Dredged from offshore
• Sprayed onto beaches (rainbowing)
• This can cost £20 per cubic metre
• Can be just £3 per cubic metre if dumped just offshore and letting natural processes take the sediment onto the beach
• Total of 3.5 million cubic metres have been added to Poole Bay beaches

Rock groynes

• Maintain deep wide beach
• Minimises longshore drift
• this keeps Poole Harbour access free
• Erosion would be 1.6 metres per year without the groynes

Beach recharge

• Reduces the impact of waves if slightly offshore
• allows fr erosion rates to stay high whilst maintaining the coastline
• Keeps the aesthetic profile of the blue flag coast
• Impacts the sediment budget in small sediment cells