Homes-for-coast protection cash sparks row

28 March 2007

Environmentalists fear a ‘national precedent’ will be set if a development planned for an exception site to pay for coastal defence work is given the go ahead by Suffolk Coastal District Council.
But the council is supportive of the proposal because there is no national funding available, and it must ‘take action’ to improve the situation on the vulnerable Anglian coast.
A group of farmers has formed the East Lane Trust, and applied to build a residential development on land that would normally not qualify. Its members propose to contribute money toward coastal defence work for the development to go ahead.
But the Suffolk Preservation Society believes if the exception site is approved for this type of development, it will make way for ‘all sorts of things to come through’, a spokeswoman said. However, the council’s strategic director, Jeremy Schofield, said the trust and the council ‘cannot accept’ the loss of flood protection due to lack of funding.
‘It is the failure of the Government to make funding available that has made it necessary for these planning applications to be submitted. Either we take action to put in effective coastal defence measures or we will lose the cliffs at Bawdsey,’ he said.

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