Agency warns W Sussex homes at threat from sea

04 June 2008

Within 100 years, almost 1,500 properties could be lost to the sea along a stretch of the West Sussex coast, the Environment Agency has warned.

The EA, together with Chichester and Arun district councils, has announced recommendations to manage flood and erosion risks along the Pagham to East Head stretch of the coast.

The draft coastal defence strategy recommends that most properties should be protected to their standard or better, but recognises that securing funding for building and maintaining defences is a serious and pressing issue for the area.

‘If funding cannot be found, plans will be needed for people to adapt to the changes that will inevitably occur,’ the strategy said.

Depending on which stretch of coast, it proposes a mixture of adaptive management plans, managed realignment and holding the line.

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