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BCP COUNCIL have been busy during the lockdown period, making use of the quieter period by frontloading a lot of their planned improvements for the next couple of years on Bournemouth seafront. With summer just around the corner and the easing of lockdown restrictions enticing visitors to the South Coast, we paid a visit to the beachfront to see how the council’s projects are coming along.
Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme Probably the council’s biggest project, major work got underway in October 2020 to replace timber groynes to the west of Bournemouth and replenish sections of Bournemouth’s beaches with sand.
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.”
Bournemouth and Poole replenishment about to begin January 14, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
Beach replenishment works at eight areas in Bournemouth and Poole will get underway later this month.
Under the project, these areas will be topped-up with sand as part of the Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme, designed to make the coastline more climate resilient.
In combination with the seawall to protect the cliff toe from erosion, beach management is required to maintain a beach profile capable of withstanding extreme storm events.
This is provided by renourishing the beaches with material dredged from an offshore licensed area, which must closely match the native beach.
BEACH works to replenish sand at eight areas in Bournemouth and Poole will get under way later this month. Huge pipes are being put in position and laid out along the beach in Southbourne for the first phase of a £7.5 million scheme to renourish the beach with sand. The work is part of the Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme which is designed to make the coastline more climate resilient. In recent days heavy machinery has been moving the pipes around. Eventually 350,000 cubic metres of sand will be pumped ashore and levelled on the beach. The areas set to benefit include beaches at Fisherman s Walk, Portman Ravine, Boscombe Pier, West Cliff, Middle Chine ad Shore Road.