COASTAL STRATEGY GROUP

Established in January 1993 the group’s remit is to endeavour to address matters that are to do with the coast or seas, especially in light of the Manhood Peninsula being low-lying with sea on three sides.

The group’s interests are catholic and wide-ranging. Of primary concern is climate change, not only rising sea levels and the ramifications for coastal defences on the peninsula itself but also in terms of coastal squeeze and the resultant, loss of salt marshes and mudflats.

Areas of interest have included not only sea defences, managed retreat and coastal flooding but sustainable fisheries, no-take-zones, marine bio-diversity, marine aggregate dredging, man-made reefs, windfarms, tidal lagoons, wave and tidal power, coastal mapping, oil spillages, marine pollution and litter, seal culls, sonar damage to cetaceans and so forth.

Over the years, articles have been studied, lectures attended, videos watched, consultations responded to, contacts made and letters written nationally and some internationally to various experts, local authorities, MPs, MEPs, other Environmental NGOs, periodicals and newspapers with many published, and so on.

The group’s agenda is flexible. If a subject comes up about which it is considered that the group can offer something positive from an environmental aspect, then we try to contribute in a well researched, balanced, way following FOE-type guidelines.