Beaches and Dunes
North Norfolk Coast Restoration Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
The North Norfolk Coast has high landscape, biodiversity, and geodiversity value, with a range of statutory designations for conservation. The risk of saline flooding to farmland as well as to freshwater or wet grassland conservation sites, property, and infrastructure is managed through a suite of measures, including seawalls and natural barriers. A series of schemes has been developed by the Environment Agency of England over the past 15 years, driven by the Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) and other initiatives that work with natural processes. EU LIFE, a European Union funding instrument for environment and climate change, funded this project. It also enabled implementation of a realignment (or restoration) project at Brancaster in 2002 (approximately 0.75 kilometers of frontage). The realignment project restored dune function; created 7.5 hectares of intertidal habitat; and protected and enhanced freshwater habitat.
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