Holding Back the Tide is operating across the three coastal counties of East Anglia: Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. And CoastNet is very pleased to welcome on board Scratby Coastal Erosion Group and Ormesby Junior School who will be working in conjunction on the project as our most northerly communities located just north of Great Yarmouth.
Scratby was first developed for holiday homes in 1934 and has maintained a strong seaside and residential identity over time . However, this cliff-top community is now facing the ultimate tide of change as a result of cliff erosion and related land and house loss. Scratby Coastal Erosion Group is a community group of local residents established to address this major issue on coastal change.
Ormesby Junior School had already planned to study coasts and erosion during this year’s summer term and so were very keen to be involved with Holding Back the Tide. And like other schools, they can envisage how their project and the topic of their local coast will be able to link in with other curriculum areas. ‘We want to use our locality as much as possible and being part of this project would give a real focus and purpose to this area of study for the children’ said Mrs D Whiting, School Head.
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