Newcastle Case Study Flashcards
Evaluate the Newcastle coastal management strategy.
Groynes:
- First built in the 1950s.
- New wooden groynes would cost £1250 per metre.
- Protected the beach by trapping sediment
- Decayed
- Groynes are unattractive and obstruct the beach whilst starving surrounding beaches
Gabions:
- First used in the 1990s
- Protect recreation ground, stabilise the coast
- Maintain important tourist attraction
- Allow water to enter the cage and leave
- Cages rust and split easily and catch debris from the sea
- Only last 10 years and are unattractive
Sea walls:
- Built by Victorians but damaged in 2002
- New one cost £4 million
- New wall is curved
-Complaints that the wall damages the natural beauty
- Sustainable as it protects the buildings on land
- Costly to replace
- Due to the curved sea wall, the water still has power and erodes the beach as it retreats
- Impacts tourism, impacting the economy
