The All Party Parliamentary Group on Coastal and Marine Issues has recognized the need for an inquiry into deprivation and disadvantage in rural coastal areas. Attached you will find an invitation to submit evidence, which we would ask you to respond to and to circulate widely.
Norman Lamb MP, Chair APPG Coastal and Marine Issues
FOR YEARS public meetings discussing the issues of coastal erosion, saline flooding and offshore aggregate dredging have attracted regular comments along the lines of “the Dutch would never do it like this”.
But until this week few people have taken the time and effort to visit Holland, speak to the relevant experts and assess the realities.
On Thursday North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb, who chairs the all party parliamentary group on coastal and marine issues, leading Norfolk coastal campaigner Malcolm Kerby and Graham Stuart, a Yorkshire MP who sits as Mr Lamb’s Conservative vice chairman on the same parliamentary group, did just that. (more…)
On the Coastal Concern Action Group website comes a report of a busy week, with meetings of a North Norfolk contingent at the Environment Agency, a DEFRA workshop in Reading discussing adaptation measures, and finally a fact finding trip to Holland organised by CoastNet on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coastal and Marine Issues.
Also on the CoastNet website >
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