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14 April 2008
Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the
Environment says it BBC radio interview that it could prove
uneconomical to defend some stretches of the coast of East England but
recognises that no-one
can accurately predict future levels of sea level rise. For more
information click here
Report from by David Green East Anglian Daily Times 14 April 2008
10 April 2008
Villagers at Potter Heigham ask people
throughout the country to join with them in opposing
Government plans to withdraw sea defences along an important part of the Norfolk
coast
For more information click
here
9 April 2008
Villagers
vented their fury at the government during a packed public meeting held on 8
April in one of the
parish churches directly threatened by a proposal to abandon six Norfolk Broads
villages
to the North Sea. For more information click
here
Local Villagers from
villages around the Blyth halt advance of tide
For more information follow this link
www.rade.net/beg/
7 March 2008
Flood defences. SCAR chairman
issues warning of declaration of war.
For fuller report click
here
18 February 2008
East Anglian Daily News devotes several pages to coverage of the Walberswick SOS demonstration
To view please click
here.
17 February 2008
For first aerial picture of Walberswick SOS demonstration by Mike Page please click
here.
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