20 Sep, 2021 | News - Press Releases, Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme
Construction works to complete the timber groyne renewal programme, part of the Poole Bay beach management scheme, continues this autumn. This final phase will see three groynes at Middle Chine, Durley Chine and West Cliff zig-zag removed and replaced with four more...
14 Sep, 2021 | News - Press Releases
On 1 September, BCP Council’s Cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of a Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Centre of Excellence. It will provide an effective and coordinated approach to help prepare and protect residents and communities across...
17 Jul, 2021 | News - From the Team
Coasts for Kids is a collaborative experience between children and their parents, coastal scientists, community artists, teachers, animators and coastal managers, through which five short animated videos have been created. The scripts were developed by a group of...
16 Jul, 2021 | News - From the Team
The Marineff project (MARine INfrastructure EFFects) is a three year, cross-Channel research project between universities and partners in the South of England and North of France. The project has €4.6million of European Union funding and brings together ecologists and...
7 Jul, 2021 | Christchurch Bay & Harbour FCERM Strategy, Have Your Say, News - Press Releases
BCP Council and New Forest District Council are asking local people to get involved in the development of a new strategy. The strategy will guide how the risk of flooding and erosion along the frontage of Christchurch Bay, from Hengistbury Head Long Groyne to Hurst...
28 Apr, 2021 | Coastal Management, News - Press Releases
Christchurch coastal protection and maintenance works are planned for May 2021 and are scheduled to take up to six weeks. Works involve: beach recycling in four groyne bays between Avon and Friars Cliff beaches and Highcliffe beach rock groyne reshaping and groyne...
19 Feb, 2021 | Canford Cliffs Monitoring & Stabilisation, News - Press Releases
A short section of promenade at Canford Cliffs beach will be temporarily closed next week (from Monday 22nd – Thursday 25th February) for essential work to be carried out as part of the Canford Cliffs cliff stabilisation project. The cliff stabilisation project began...
19 Feb, 2021 | Flood Risk Management, News - Press Releases
The Environment Agency has awarded £12.4 million Flood Defence Grant in Aid to BCP Council to build new flood defence infrastructure. BCP Council’s funding bid was submitted to the Environment Agency in September 2020 for Flood Defence Grant in Aid (FDGiA) for tidal...
28 Jan, 2021 | News - Press Releases, Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme
Seven depleted beach areas from Southbourne to Poole will be renourished with sand and beach material from February 2021 as part of the Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme which is designed to make the coastline more climate resilient. By 2nd February contractors...
20 Nov, 2020 | Christchurch Bay & Harbour FCERM Strategy, News - Press Releases
A new strategy is being produced to guide the long-term sustainable tidal flood and coastal erosion risk management for Christchurch Bay and Harbour; from the east of Hengistbury Head to Hurst Spit. In September, BCP Council’s cabinet agreed the submission of a...
