What are the Knock On effects of coastal management for Holderness?
Coastal erosion along the Holderness Coast is linked to the overall sediment balance in the Humber Estuary. Demands to provide coastal protection along that coastline may conflict with the flood defence and environmental needs of the Estuary. This explicit statement of the importance of sediment movement between Holderness and the Humber, stresses the need for a strategic overview which includes both coast and estuary. Neither the SMP nor the CMP approach advocated in the MAFF Strategy for Flood and Coastal Defence consider this basic interaction which is central to both the economic and ecological use of the coast. Humber and its coast have not yet evolved the stable form which may be expected eventually to develop. Instead they continue to erode in places and to flood and accrete in others, changes which can therefore be regarded not as short term problems but as long term solutions. Despite this long term geological goal, we may be excused if, in our continued use of this coast we r
