EDP: “Could £1bn sea wall plan be the salvation of Norfolk?”
Could it be salvation for Norfolk – or is it cloud cuckoo land?
A massive wall built out at sea and linking Great Yarmouth to Happisburgh, enclosing dozens of square miles of water and turning it into a freshwater haven for wildlife and tourism, could be the answer to some of the climate change challenges facing Norfolk and the northern Broads.
The idea has been put forward by Mike Evans, who has held a series of high-profile posts in the boating world, such as chairman of the Royal Yachting Association, and is the current president of the Norfolk and Suffolk Boating Association and a representative of private boat owners at the Broads Authority. (more…)

For Malcolm Kerby climate change is no distant threat to the Third World. He lives where it is already ruining lives… in Britain.
A successful multi million pound bid to solve major coastal problems in Norfolk and Suffolk was hailed by experts and campaigners last night as the most important step ever taken in the management of the coast.
A leading Norfolk coastal campaigner says the county’s cause has been helped through brief encounters with senior government and opposition ministers on successive days.

A campaign body which has attained international importance on the issues of climate change and coastal erosion, or a tiny community group representing the interests of a few hundred people in the Norfolk clifftop village of Happisburgh?






