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Addressing the challenges – planning for people at the coast

Rob YoungCoast & Community Partnerships Manager

robert.young@north-norfolk.gov.ukwww.northnorfolk.gov.uk

01263 516162

Rob YoungCoast & Community Partnerships Manager

robert.young@north-norfolk.gov.ukwww.northnorfolk.gov.uk

01263 516162

A tale of two villages

The challenges

Wicked problems - common objectives

Uncomfortable knowledge - sound understanding

Clumsy mistakes - elegant solutions

The Dynamic Coast

Policy background

• Post-war defences for coastal settlements• Further development• 2003 policy change in response to ‘better’ understanding

of coastal processes and sea level rise• Reduced funding for coast defences• Coastal change impacts• No funding (or method) to manage coastal change• No compensation or mitigation• 2009 Coastal Change Pathfinder: to trial new ways for

communities to adapt to coastal change

Happisburgh: a euphemism for blight (or fight?)

1888

1905

1938

1992

2001

Photograph courtesy of Mike Page

Not the brick outhouse!

Removing and replacing houses that are imminently threatened by erosion

www.northnorfolk.org/coastal

Relocating Facilities and Establishing a ‘Buffer’

www.northnorfolk.org/coastal

Relocation of the Cliff Top Caravan Site

www.northnorfolk.org/coastal

Understanding and Recording Coastal Heritage

We can’t ignore change;

we must manage it - together

Three lessons:

Thank you

Rob YoungCoast & Community Partnerships Manager

robert.young@north-norfolk.gov.ukwww.northnorfolk.gov.uk

01263 516162

Rob YoungCoast & Community Partnerships Manager

robert.young@north-norfolk.gov.ukwww.northnorfolk.gov.uk

01263 516162