The government has published its response to the recent consultation on the expansion of the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan to cover coastal and estuarine waters. In summary Government expands plan to tackle storm overflows, including all coastal and estuary sites Marine protected areas and shellfish water protected areas made a priority Plan to drive […]
Eve Leegwater writes: Here are some links to our EA Estuaries and Coast involvement at COP26. On 1 November, a 3 min film introducing the Restoring Meadows, Marsh and Reef (ReMeMaRe) initiative was shown at the international opening event for the COP26 Virtual Ocean Pavilion (VOP). On Ocean Action Day, 5 November, ReMeMaRe launched a suite […]
Championing Coastal Coordination (3Cs) – Call for Expressions of Interest – Environment Agency Introduction The Championing Coastal Coordination (3Cs) project is an Environment Agency initiative with support from Natural England, the Marine Management Organisation and the Association of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities. It is a collaboration seeking to explore how to enhance and progress […]
Defra update their websites systematically on particular subjects and the first link here is link to the entire collection of details on the various English coastal paths. Another variant on this theme is to re-publish older reports and there are a swarm of study reports from the 2000’s appearing on flood and coastal defence themes. […]
A coalition of struggling seaside towns and cross-party MPs has urged Boris Johnson to appoint a minister dedicated to coastal communities to kick-start their economic revival. The letter asked the Prime Minister to create a post ahead of an expected autumn Cabinet reshuffle as coastal areas are pushed to “breaking point” by the pandemic. Mr […]
We’ll never be able to say we weren’t warned about the risks of sea-level rise and storm surges, as the paper below shows the huge scale of impacts. Climate change is happening now and whilst this report is couched in a 30 year time scale for many around the UK this an issue now. The […]
A new study by the University of Southampton and the Centre for Towns has shown that coastal communities are likely to be most affected economically by the lockdown measures brought in as a result of the COVID19 pandemic, with former industrial towns also at risk from longer-term effects of the crisis. Of the top 20 […]
Guardian ‘East Yorkshire councillors bemoan lack of national guidance and funding Ministers have been urged to step in to help families whose homes are at imminent risk of collapsing into the sea on the fastest-eroding coastline in northern Europe. Residents in the Yorkshire village of Skipsea were told this week that more than 20 homes were at […]