Overstrand Coastal Management Scheme

The Coastal Management Team are in the process of implementing a scheme of engineering works to be completed at Overstrand.

Overstrand’s soft cliffs are protected at their toe by a sea wall, which also acts as a promenade. This sea wall comprises a series of integrated concrete defences that, due to an ongoing reduction in beach levels, have become significantly undermined in several places. As a result of the undermining, the sea wall has sustained at least two fractures from the top to the bottom of the structure. The steel sheet piles, which form the base of the seawall, have become severely degraded, and in places the sea has penetrated through the corroded sheets, beginning to undermine the structure above.

In line with the Shoreline Management Plan, NNDC will complete necessary repair works at the two locations that have been damaged to extend the life of this coastal protection asset.

We are now moving forward with this project to upgrade and repair the seawall. The first stage of the works included the delivery of 500 steel sheet piles.

A construction contractor, JN Bentley, has been formally appointed. Their site compound has been sited at the bottom of the Clifton Way slope, to the east of the beach huts. Over September and October, works at the western and eastern ends of the sea wall will be completed.

Please see below the Habitat Regulations Assessment and SSSI Impact Assessment. The Council has formally assessed the impacts and will be incorporating any mitigation measures necessary into the scheme.

Documents

• Habitat Regulations Assessment (PDF)
• SSSI Impact Assessment (PDF)