On Wednesday February 20th Great Yarmouth Borough Council Cabinet agreed to accept the Shoreline Management Plan subject to certain conditions.
These include a change of status for Scratby beach from ‘no active intervention’ to ‘managed retreat’, thus enabling essential repairs to be carried out in the future to buy time to allow long term planning to be put in place.
In addition a social justice clause will be added to provide compensation to those adversley affected by coastal erosion in the future.
Furthermore the £100,000 required to advance the plans for the rock berm extension will be carried over into the next financial year.
Scratby Coastal Erosion Group are pleased with progress so far, and are looking forward to working with the Council to take matters further. It has been agreed to hold regular discussions between the Erosion Group and the Borough Council, and it is hoped that the first of these meetings will take place in March.
Thanks are due to Councillors Jim Shrimplin and Charles Reynolds, Tim Howard (Head of Regeneration & Environment), Officers of GYBC, Members of Ormesby with Scratby Parish Council and of course our Member of Parliament, Tony Wright, who has been very supportive.
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