TIMBER groynes and not rock groynes will be used to save Swanage beach.
Purbeck district councillors have backed plans to build 19 timber groynes and agreed to spend just under £100,000 on getting a detailed design drawn up.
Councillors voted in favour of spending that money up front to get work on the scheme under way in the hope that DEFRA will agree to fund one hundred per cent of the total costs.
The estimated cost of saving the beach varies from just over £2 million to more than £3 million depending on whether sand used to recharge the beach is dredged from Poole Harbour or from further afield.
Cllr Nick Cake said: "If DEFRA come up with 100 per cent funding there will be no problem but if they don't there will be a problem."
Council chief executive Paul Croft told councillors that landing 100 per cent funding from DEFRA was not unprecedented - pointing to West Dorset District Council's success in securing funds for coastal protection works at West Bay.
Cllr Tony Miller, mayor of Swanage, said: "The majority of the people in Swanage did not want to see rock groynes but there was overwhelming opinion that to do nothing is not an option.
"There is no point whatsoever in delaying this, we will only have higher costs in the future."
Purbeck council will seek support from MP Jim Knight in its request for 100 per cent DEFRA funding.
Scheme planners hope to start work in October 2005. Five groynes will be built on beach owned by Swanage Town Council and the rest on privately owned beach.
First published: November 12
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Why should owners of a private beach benefit from DEFRA aid? Or subsidies from taxpayers?
As a parallel situation, if I buy a house that subsequently suffers subsidence, then that's usually my problem and I would negotiate with my insurance company (not the taxpayer) to get it fixed. I'd probably have to pay a hefty excess and my premium would escalate as well.
Little help from the taxpayer for me in this situation!
Back to the private beaches again... Since any placement of groynes on private property will both enlarge the area and enhance the value of that asset, can the taxpayer expect to see a generous contribution from beach-owners? After all, their huts seem now to be worth £18000+ and, given an enlarged beach, no doubt this value would go up significantly.
Maybe such good fortune might prompt owners of private beaches to cough up their proper share of groyne construction costs on their property...
Incidentally, do the private beach owners own only just above the high water mark, or are they claiming all the available beach - even to low tide level? I've never had a satisfactory answer to this question- it's always commonly believed that beach below the high water mark was Crown property.
You might get some answers to your questions from Mike Goater (Environmental Services) at Purbeck District Council - Telephone (01929) 557271.......or mikegoater@purbeck-dc.gov.uk
I am firmly of the opinion that traditional timber groynes are the best solution and the previous ones seem to have lasted well. Is there any information on the origin of the timber? I would like to be assured that it is derived from managed and sustainable resources.
The point raised by anonymous regarding the benefits of beach reclamation to the private beach owners is a salient one but the bigger picture is that the entire beach has to be saved and cannot exclude the areas of "private beach". Perhaps those individual/businessess benefitting should pay a "sand recharge levy" in proportion to beach frontage?
1/ Hmmm..intersting observation about private ownership of beaches
2/ But prevention is fundamentally about long term protection of cliff, houses, road. And surely we all benefit from the tourist value of beaches and being able to walk along them...
3/ The point about using wood from sustainable sources has been made during earlier debate, and I'm sure will be heeded. But something to keep our eyes on...
Now we need to know how and when the beach will be 'recharged'. Will lorry loads of Swedish sand be imported at great expense? (I believe this happened in Mablethorpe and the sand was so light that it blew away!). Or might the material dredged from Poole harbour be suitable, and could it simply be dumped in the tidal flow to be deposited on Swanage beach? Or what?
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