Scientists are carrying out the first ever seabed survey of the East Yorkshire coast.

The latest technology is being used to produce an accurate map of the area between Flamborough and Spurn Point.

Coastal engineers will use the data to help them take more cost-effective, preventative action to combat coastal erosion. (more…)

A new report says that Spurn Point is not at risk of being washed away.

Research by the Environment Agency contradicts the established theory that the land would eventually be destroyed by coastal erosion.

The six-kilometres finger of sand juts out into the Humber Estuary from the Holderness coast. At some points it is just a few metres wide. (more…)

Series telling the stories of people caught up in extreme weather events in the UK. From floods to hailstorms and even tornados, find out what happens when freak weather hits and show you how to protect yourself, your home and your family from disaster.

A dramatic storm leaves a couple’s dream home teetering on the edge of a cliff and it’s a lucky escape for the family whose house was struck by lightning.

Featuring a couple who invested in a hotel and campsite at the East Yorkshire village of Ulrome on the Holderness Coast.

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Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, is to meet with members of the Humber Estuary Coastal Authorities Group and Environment Agency (Friday Nov 13) following the publication of the draft of the second Shoreline Management Plan (SMP2).

The plan, which covers the coast from Flamborough in the North to Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, in the South, sets out how and where the coast will be defended for the next 100 years.

Graham said: “This is a draft plan and it is vital as many people as possible use the consultation period to make their feelings known. (more…)

NATURE will continue to take its course along vast swathes of the Holderness coast for the next century under controversial new proposals.

Consultation started yesterday on a “no active intervention” policy for much of East Yorkshire’s fast crumbling coastline, outside settlements and towns which will continue to be defended.

The number two shoreline management plan – which cost more than £300,000 – draws strikingly similar conclusions to a report 10 years ago and has already attracted criticism from some local residents who say the money would have been better spent on helping those who face losing their homes. (more…)

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has urged as many Holderness residents as possible to respond to a new Government consultation on coastal change policy.

The consultation looks at how coastal communities can successfully adapt to the impact of coastal change over the next few decades. One of the main issues the Government is keen to look at is the level of assistance afforded to homeowners who are affected by coastal erosion. For example, the consultation asks the following:

• Do you agree that it is appropriate for Government to make available public funds to local authorities to cover demolition costs for which private homeowners are currently liable?
• Is the homeowner assistance package set at the right level to strike the balance between individuals taking responsibility for their investment decisions, and ensuring that local authorities are able to provide practical assistance to homeowners who lose their home as a result of erosion? If not how could this be done?
• How should the payment mechanism for the demolition and moving assistance grant work? What evidence should be provided to Defra to support a claim for demolition and moving costs? (more…)

More than 60 residents from the Holderness area packed into the SHoRes Centre on Friday evening to attend a public meeting organised by Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness.

They heard presentations from members of the marine aggregate industry, which is currently dredging nine miles from the coast, as well as marine environment expert Professor Mike Elliott.

Graham organised the event after some residents contacted him to say they feared the continued off-shore dredging is having a direct impact on the speed of erosion along the Holderness coast. (more…)

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, is inviting residents to learn about the possible impact of dredging for aggregates on coastal erosion at an information event and public meeting.

Graham organised the event, due to be held at the SHoRes Centre, Withernsea, on March 27, after some residents said they feared the continued off-shore dredging was having a direct impact on the speed of erosion along the Holderness coast. (more…)

FARMERS and householders are today being urged to wake up to controversial plans that could lead to their properties being swamped with floodwater.

Objectors say it is not only East Yorkshire cliff-edge cottages that are threatened by the Environment Agency’s proposed abandonment of centuries-old coastal defences.

The Humber Flood Risk Management Strategy, coupled with a likely rise in sea levels, will mean thousands of acres of farmland and will be flooded regularly by the sea within 40 years. (more…)

If my first day on the Holderness coast was odd, the second was utterly bizarre. In the early morning the coast was blanketed in a sea fog – or “fret” as they call it locally – and the dwellings along the cliff edge, which I got to see now from behind, were ramshackle, winnowed out by the gulf opening up in their former front gardens. And yet still people hung on here, despite the void encroaching beneath their feet. I headed south towards Hornsea, and passed through leisure park after leisure park, each one full of “static” (ha!) homes. (more…)