The Environment Agency has launched a new consultation on its proposals for the Wash East Coastal Management Strategy.
The Wash East Coastal Management Strategy sets out to identify the most suitable way of managing flood and erosion risk to local communities between Hunstanton and Wolferton Creek, on the North Norfolk coast, whilst protecting the internationally important natural and historic environments along the coastline.
Defences were severely tested during the East Coast Tidal Surge in 5 December 2013. Climate change studies indicate that sea levels will continue to rise and consequently the impact of future tidal events could escalate with an increasing number of storm events. The Agency says planning is needed now for future protection of the coastline from the effects of flooding and coastal erosion.
Working together the Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk and the Environment Agency have involved representatives from local communities, businesses and Norfolk County Council, throughout the study period, to inform the Strategy.
The Strategy makes a number of management recommendations for the short term (next 25 years) and an approach to future management over the long term (next 100 years). The recommendations build on the policies published in the Wash Shoreline Management Plan published in November 2010.
The Strategy recommends an ‘adaptable’ approach to the future management of this coastline which does not preclude any future opportunities to further improve the standard of protection – dependent on available funding.
The Environment Agency has said it is unlikely that any works arising as a result of recommendations made within the Strategy would be fully funded by national government. However, the Agency , the Borough Council and Norfolk County Council and Environment are willing to make a contribution to the up-front capital costs required to sustain the current standard of protection and manage future climate risks.
Deadline to submit comments to the Environment Agency is 1 September 2014.
Click here to download the draft plan
Click here to download the environmental report
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