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Coastal Management Maintenance Policy

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MAINTENANCE POLICY

Policy Options

Coastal protections have been utilised to enforce a "hold the line" policy in the
Holderness coastal villages since the late 1800s. Large areas between coastal communities
are also deteriorating due to a lack of action. Local and regional governments are currently
attempting to establish coordinated coastal zone management programmes for the entire
Holderness coastline as well as the Humber estuary.

Along the Holderness coast, the policy options (do nothing or hold the line) are
described in the ‘East Riding Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan.' At Holderness,
the policy option managed realignment is being considered for the future.

Table : Policy options along the Holderness coast

MANAGEMENT LOCATION PREFERRED OPTION FOR


UNIT NUMBER LIFETIME OF SMP
1 Flamborough Do Nothing
2 Bridlington Promenades Hold the Line
3 Wilsthorpe/ Fraisthorpe Do Nothing
4 Barmston/ Atwick Do Nothing
Hold the Line when needed at Atwick
gas storage facilities
Hold the Line at Barmston Drain
pending more detailed economic
analysis
5 Hornsea Hold the Line
6 Rolston Do Nothing
7 Mappleton Hold the Line
8 Aldbrough/ Tunstall Do Nothing
Hold the Line at Tunstall Drain pending
more detailed economic analysis
9 Withernsea Hold the Line
10 Holmpton Do Nothing
11 Easington Gas Terminals Hold the Line (to be reviewed in 2020)
12 Easington/ Kilnsea Do Nothing
Retreat the line periodically at New
Back flood defences
13 Spurn Peninsula Do Nothing
Local retreat or intervention where
monitoring so requires
14 Sunk Bight Hold the Line
15 Sunk Island Hold the Line
16 Immingham Hold the Line
17 Grimsby and Cleethorpes Hold the Line
18 Humberston/ Donna Nook Hold the Line

Historic Measures

Hard sea defences have been built throughout the entire coastline to prevent erosion
in areas where the sea poses a hazard to people or essential infrastructure. Sea defences,
on the other hand, have a disadvantage: they are unattractive, inefficient, and, in the long
run, can be discovered to cause local erosion as well as erosion in adjacent areas.
Furthermore, sea walls make it more difficult to get to the beach, which may deter tourists.

Private sea defences have been put in place ad hoc in the past to defend assets,
particularly at Ulrome and Skipsea. While these provide short-term protection to the things
that are directly protected, their general nature and design are concerning. Private defences
are frequently not built to the same engineering standards as publicly financed defences,
creating a health and safety risk to beachgoers. During periods of beach "drawdown," they
can likewise be easily undermined. Due to these issues, the presumption should be against
allowing private sea defences in the future. Any private proposal that is evaluated would
have to be deemed technically sound and have no negative environmental impact by the
Planning Authority. Conditions for maintenance and eventual removal would also have to be
taken into account.

Conflicts

Managing beaches through 'soft engineering,' which involves the deposition of gravel
and other materials to supplement the natural protection provided by beaches (government
policy in 1993) has been updated; nowadays, it is widely accepted that sediment from cliff
erosion is essential for the natural defences of beaches, mudflats, and marsh. This sediment
movement should be regulated rather than stopped in the long run. At Mappleton, there was
a contradiction between the need to defend the coastline, and hence the properties in the
hamlet, and the necessity to maintain sediment transit down the shore. Mappleton was
facing the loss of 30 houses and its main road in 1990. Despite the fact that erosion
concerns would occur "downstream" of Mappleton, a coastal management plan was
established, and granite blocks were brought from Norway to construct two groynes and a
seawall. These structures were exceedingly expensive, possibly even more expensive than
a compensation system.
Similar conflicts arise when local governments must protect certain areas and
interests, such as EC-designated bathing beaches and fishing activities, nature
conservation, RNLI and fishing vessel access channels, and sewage treatment discharge,
while avoiding being harmed by coastal defence policies. When tourism and fishing are the
sole sources of income in a town, protecting the beaches and harbours becomes a critical
component of local governance.

The situation at Hornsea is another example of such competing interests.


Landowners facing the destruction of their land and property were assured by the local
council that a stone groyne would be built at the base of the cliffs to trap sediments and
decrease the power of the waves. The residents, on the other hand, were enraged by the
council's choice to wait until the cliff edge was 30 metres away before doing action. The
council's major concern had been to protect the British Petroleum oil and gas port at
Easington, which was located further south. Furthermore, the Countryside Commission
stated that conserving the Hornsea cliffs limits silt flow down the coast and into the Humber
River, where it protects riverbanks. According to their findings, this raises the likelihood of
flooding in Hull. However, in response to local Hornsea residents' objections, the stone
barrier was somehow expanded to protect the village.

Future Measures

It is necessary to have a deeper grasp of the processes that play a role along the
Holderness Coast in order to make the aforementioned judgments easier. The ‘Holderness
Coastal Experiment,' which began as a component of the UK LOIS initiative, has been set
up with the specific goal of studying and eventually forecasting coastal erosion. The goals
were to I quantify current fluxes from a rapidly eroding coast to the adjacent sea and link
these fluxes to separate causative mechanisms using model simulations, (ii) extend these
simulations to predict larger scale, longer-term sediment motions and compare them to
historical records of erosion and accretion, and (iii) examine the associated impact of future
and historical scenarios of climate change.

In the future, management tactics may be based on cost-benefit analysis, and if the
costs surpass the benefits, controlled retreat is typically considered the best option, with
individuals who lose their homes and livelihoods receiving compensated.

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