District steps in with emergency works to offer temporary relief

13 December 2006

North Norfolk District Council is to draw on council reserves to provide £200,000 of emergency protection to the vulnerable coastal community of Happisburgh this winter.
The authority is planning to spend £2M of its own money over the next three financial years on protecting the most vulnerable communities, which a draft shoreline-management plan earmarked for ‘managed realignment’.
It hopes that providing 10 years of extra protection will buy time needed for the Government to agree ‘social justice measures’ to residents unable to sell their homes in vulnerable areas which the Government will not defend.
The £200,000 first phase will involve doubling the size of the beach’s rock revetment in Happisburgh, where 1950s defences ‘are decrepit’.
Environment minister, Ian Pearson, called for ‘a debate about social justice for coastal communities’ during an August visit to Happisburgh. His department is considering options for helping communities where there was not an economic case for improving defences.
Malcolm Kerby, a resident on the Coastal Concern Action Group, praised the council’s stopgap measures, but asked: ‘Why does the local community have to pick up the tab?’

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