Saturday 26 January 2008

Beach Management Plans


This week in CZM we looked at Beach Management Plans.
We were divided into 2 groups and each group had to come up with a management plan for a beach of their choice.
Interestingly, the 2 groups came up with totally different Plans.
Our group, Group 1 with Myself, Rowene, Alex, Joe, Seb and Tony, decided on a planned retreat, letting the sea level rise and coastal erosion take its natural course and when necessary, moving the car park, the cafe and the Farm on the hill at Gwythian and Godrevy to alternate locations.
http://www.havant.gov.uk/council/Coastal/Vol2ap11.pdf here is a Beach Management Plan with a policy similar to the one our group came up with. It is a "Do Nothing" approach with a managed retreat for specific areas eg the Alverstoke Road. Having lived in RNH Haslar Near Alverstoke for several years I was unaware that this was an issue but reading the report I was curious to see the plans.
http://www.state.hi.us/dlnr/occl/files/Erosion/BeachManagementPlan.pdf
At this link, there is a Beach Management Plan similar to the one devised by Group . Except this is not A UK beach but one in Maui!!

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