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WHAT'S NEW
29 October 2008
New news stories have been added, the
Alde and Ore Association's recruitment brochure
and most recent newsletter can be downloaded from the
start (index) page for the Association
15 February 2008
Youngsters and the
Rt Hon John Gummer MP confirm that they will be joining
the
SOS demonstration
on Walberswick beach 17 February. For latest EADT update click
here.
2 February 2008
Villagers
adjacent to the Blyth plan SOS demonstration on Walberswick beach 17 February
to protest at Environment Agency's plans to withdraw funding of Blyth river
defences.
For more information click here.
To link to EADT article click
here.
28 January 2008
The Blyth Estuary
Group say clay walls built 400 years ago can be reinstated at a cost of
thousands of pounds
- not the £40 million which the Environment Agency estimates.
For fuller report click
here.
20 January 2008
More items added to SCAR link and News page including a report on SCAR AGM
14 January 2008
More items added to
News page including a link to Libby Purves article in the Times on 13 November
2007
arguing that DEFRA should maintain our sea defences - to view links go to News
Page by clicking here
7 January 2008
Harvey Bradshaw, the
new Regional Director for the Environment Agency, has confirmed Government plans
to abandon
estuary and sea defences along the Suffolk coast. Statement has been
strongly criticised by John Gummer MP
- for more details click here.
15 December 2007
Government approves East Lane Trust's plans to use development gains for vital flood defence works - More details to follow.
14 December 2007
Environment Agency withdraw
maintenance from the river walls protecting the Tinkers and Delacroix marshes on
the Blyth Estuary.
David Andren, Chairman of the Alde and Ore Association, argues this could set an
alarming precedent - for more details
click here
13 December 2007
December 2007 Bulleting of the Alde
and Ore Association's River Defence Committee can now be view on-line.
This contains details of the Committee's survey of the river banks following the
surge on 9 November and a
number of photographs including one showing the high tide overtopping the river
banks defending
the Aldeburgh Marshes. For more details click
here.
12 December 2007
DEFRA's project appraisal guidance and
all background papers relating to the draft Blyth strategy have now been
downloaded
to our
Library page. Link to news
story in today's EADT added on our news page
(Environment Agency say
they have not ignored implications of Blyth Strategy for A12)
11 December 2007
Link to Suffolk County Council's
assessment of additional cost to local taxpayers of maintaining
roads such as the A12 added to News page.
Background documents to Blyth strategy can now be downloaded from our
Library page
9 December 2007
New background to Alde and Ore
Association Web site inserted and What's New Page added
and the link to the Estuary Planning Partnership for the Alde and Ore has been
re-activated