US EditionIn sea-change, UK may abandon homes to coastal erosion
The UK government funds pilots to plan managed retreat from rapidly eroding eastern coasts, with over £15 million allocated to adapt vulnerable areas without traditional sea defenses.
- The U.K. Environment Agency has determined some communities on the soft, sandy eastern English coast will need managed retreat, and the government is funding pilots like the Coastwise project to prepare undefended areas.
- For decades Britain relied on the 'hold the line' policy, but ageing coastal defences and sea-level rise mean some barriers now fail their design life.
- Shelley Cowlin's home was demolished in January after storms, part of at least ten clifftop demolitions since October, with gabions destroyed and 'They won't give you any money'.
- Coastwise is assessing ways to lose at-risk homes and guide purchases, backed by over £15 million in government funding that cannot be spent on sea walls or gabions.
- Thorpeness residents say storms have grown fiercer and urged more money and government support, calling the situation 'very urgent', while researchers warn many coastal communities face graveyard and car park relocation options.
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In sea-change, U.K. may abandon homes to coastal erosion
Read: 3 min In an English seaside village, researchers discuss options for relocating a graveyard threatened with slipping into the sea, or moving back a car park perilously close to a cliff edge. The team from the Coastwise project have been granted over £15 million in government funding to adapt the coastline in North Norfolk, eastern England, to accelerating erosion worsened by climate change. There is one caveat: it cannot spend that money o…
Preparing for the retreat from coastal erosion: this is the strategy under study on the east coast of England, where a team of researchers examines how to move a cemetery that threatens to be swallowed by the sea, or a parking lot too close to a cliff.
A coastal village in Norfolk, England, is facing the rapid erosion caused by climate change. Coastwise project analyzes innovative solutions for house relocation.
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