Work taking place on the seafront THE next phase of major works to replace timber groynes on the seafront will start in the autumn. BCP Council’s Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme to replace timber groynes to the west of Bournemouth and replenish sections of Bournemouth’s beaches with sand started in October 2020. A spokesman from BCP Council said: “From October 2020 to March 2021 coastal management works to replace timber groynes from the Poole/ Bournemouth boundary to Middle Chine were completed on time. “These works saw the removal of five life-expired groynes and the installation of four more evenly spaced new ones. A high and wide beach is the coastline’s primary flood defence which is then supported by groynes to slow down the natural process of beach material moving eastwards along Poole Bay.”