Case studies and guidance about coastal defence schemes involving local funding

The project looked at examples of coastal schemes involving multiple objectives and funders, and produced guidance on best practice.

Documents

Understanding the business case for surface water management schemes in comparison to other flood and coastal schemes - final report (2 MB) PDF

Coastal schemes with multiple objectives and funders - guidance report (995 KB) PDF

List of schemes with multiple objectives and funders - technical report (520 KB) EXCEL

Urban Flood Risk Management schemes: case study examples of schemes with multiple funders, multiple objectives and partnership working - consultancy project (2 MB) PDF

Case study report 1: Alkborough Flats tidal defence scheme (619 KB) PDF

Case study report 2: Blakeney Freshes River Glaven realignment and Cley to Salthouse drainage improvements (652 KB) PDF

Case study report 3: Cleveleys coastal defence improvement and promenade enhancement scheme (448 KB) PDF

Case study report 4: East Head beach recharge (404 KB) PDF

Case study report 5: East Lane, Bawdsey (685 KB) PDF

Case study report 6: Happisburgh emergency works (1 MB) PDF

Case study report 7: Kilnsea flood defence scheme (360 KB) PDF

Case study report 8: Lyme Regis environmental improvements (619 KB) PDF

Case study report 9: Parrett estuary flood risk management strategy (418 KB) PDF

Case study report 10: Bournemouth, Poole Bay and Swanage beach replenishment (585 KB) PDF

Case study report 11: Pool Quay sea defence scheme (846 KB) PDF

Case study report 12: Redcar flood alleviation scheme (405 KB) PDF

Case study report 13: Tywyn coastal defence scheme (447 KB) PDF

Case study report 14: Weston-super-Mare seafront enhancement (597 KB) PDF

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Details

Approach

This project informed the debate on how finance from central government might be supplemented by letting local organisations contribute to reducing the risk of flood and coastal erosion.

It provided evidence to support Defra’s ‘Making Space for Water’ strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM). The project looked at examples of coastal projects and schemes in three categories:

  • schemes with many objectives
  • schemes involving many different organisations and sources of funding
  • comprehensive schemes with many objectives, organisations and sources of funding

For each case study the project assessed the benefits it brought against its costs.

The case studies included examples of all types of flood risk management approaches, from building new defences to maintaining and assessing existing ones. This also included transferring the ownership of flood defences to landowners where the Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) has suggested that no active intervention is required.

Outcome

The outputs of this project will include a structured database of coastal projects and schemes with multiple objectives and / or funders, and a detailed technical report. These will include commentary on lessons learnt and guidance on handling such schemes. This guidance, produced by this project, covers topics such as the legal approach to developing flood defence schemes. It also covers best practice in creating partnerships / collaborations between organisations and key stakeholders for providing funding.

The project started in 2009 and was completed in 2010 at a cost of £94,250.

Updates to this page

Published 19 February 2021