- Blackpool is one of many coastal seaside resorts along the Lancashire coast.
- The land is low lying so flooding is more of a threat than erosion.
- Blackpool has piers, a promenade, tower and famous pleasure beach which brings in 6 million visitors a year.
- A massive concrete sea wall (hard engineering) has been used to protect its investment in the tourist industry but this comes with a very high price tag.
- Despite he recent decline in Blackpool's tourist numbers, the resort has recently received £62 million of funding through DEFRA to develop its central promenade which is overtopped in winter storms.
- The new wall will be designed to deflect and absorb the waves energy rather than resist it and it will be extended by 5 hectares along with an improvement to the access to the beach.
- The sea wall protects 1,500 businesses and residential properties.
- Blackpool also uses soft engineering in the form of dune regeneration.
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