Odisha And Lyme Regis And Holderness

Question 1

Coastal management at Lyme Regis ?

Answer 1

Causes of this erosion

• Strong prevailing winds
• LSD east to west
• Mass movement on cliff due to geology
• rising sea levels

Why manage ?

• Jurassic coastline
• area of natural world heritage site
• exposed to large fetch from Atlantic
• on some of most unstable cliffs encouraging erosion
• frequent landslides
• 214 beachfront properties

Tourism ?

• important tourist town
• phases approach made to tackle erosion and keep coast looking appealing

Phases ?

• Cobb at the gate of church cliff- new sea walls founded by MAFF
• cobb at harbour gate- sea wall and stabalisation of slopes
• stabilisation of west cliff at Monmouth
• preventing black venn land slip with soil nailing to prevent loss of 240 houses
• another cobb (crack monitoring)