From the BBC:
In a new report, the Trust says the UK is "ignoring known risks of flood and erosion at the coast".
In England, just one in three coastal local authorities has long-term, informed plans in place, it claims. The Trust cites examples of adaptive "soft engineering" and innovation, such as creating flood banks and reed beds.
It even encourages the design and use of moveable buildings close to particularly vulnerable, quickly-eroding areas of the coast.
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Yes, they are called "holiday caravans".
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Britain's largest coastal landowner wants more money spent by the Government on sea defences - shock!
At least their "coastal marine adviser" has an appropriate name.
B, yes, I could have headed this "We own land! Give us money!"
Good spot on the name, first and second!
"The National Trust bought a stretch of Dunwich Heath on the Suffolk coast and plans to restore heathland habitat."
As nearby Dunwich began to decline in 1286 due to coastal erosion, it is hardly a new or urgent problem.
AKH, good point, so presumably the price they paid was adjusted down accordingly to enable them to pay for future flood defences and/or that it was a kind of leasehold?
I'm building a movable building myself.
Seems like quite a good idea. Caravans on the coast are prone to blow over and away. Need for more hefty buildings on rails that can be winched back gradually.
DBC, what, like Peacehaven, except retaining the wheels and underframes?
@B Dunno : what was the system at Peacehaven? On the top of a cliff isn't it?
Apologies, ISTR seeing a picture of a village entirely composed of ranks of old railway carriages converted into houses and thought that it was Peacehaven. It was on a chalk cliff on the south coast.
@B Again dunno but I think Peacehaven was a self-build new town so could well have had plenty of old railway carriages. I would not have thought that erosion was that much of a problem, compared with the clay cliffs along the East Coast.I used to live along the road in Brighton. I once stayed in a railway carriage in Wales; was a bit annoyed that it was not arranged in compartments . Altogether too much like normal, I thought.
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