Author: Sally Perry
Islanders Urged to Comment on Draft Shoreline Management Plan
3:27 pm Tuesday, 10th August, 2010, Isle of Wight
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St Lawrence councillor, Chris Bonney, last night told the Ventnor Town Council about a new Isle of Wight council consultation taking place over the next three months.
The Draft Shoreline Management Plan 2 is a strategic document setting out policies for the management of the Island’s coastline over the next 20, 50 and 100 years.
The policies also cover the council’s response to coastal flooding and erosion risks.
No active intervention from Ventnor to Totland
What was very worrying last night, was when Cllr Bonney told the meeting that according to the document, one of the suggestions was that no active intervention take place between Ventnor and Totland over the next 100 years.
We’ve yet to go through the document in detail, but you can view it yourselves by visiting the Coastal Wight Website.
Visit the roadshow
The roadshow, which visits Yarmouth, Cowes, Wootton, Ryde and Sandown, was also discussed and it was agreed by councillors that the Winter Gardens would be offered as a venue for those in the south, as the alternative offered to Cllr Bonney was to make an appointment to view the documents at the Coastal Visitor Centre.
It was felt that would not encourage people to engage in the consultation process.
Full details are available on the Coastal Wight Website.
The consultation documents are also in Newport Library
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So long as they don’t close it down before the end of the consultation
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there seems to be a policy of no active intervention OR hold the line, ie maintain what is already there. It would be good to know when there last was ‘active intervention’ along that streach of coast. I suspect for most of it the answer is never, which surely suggests that any new works would be extremely costly and possibly less neccessary than other places.
I know the military road is along there, but so what? Surely nature should be allowed to take its course. That must be better than spending millions we dont have on sea defences that, certainly along the military road, would have not much effect.
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So Newport is hoping to become a future beach resort?
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Apropos of nothing to do with the consultation, but that picture of the island on the banner at the top of the SMP page is absolutely fantastic. Worth clicking through just for that…
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