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- Hunstanton has a 'Hold the Line Policy' (SMP)
- The area is dominated by chalk and carstone cliffs, meaning it is very vulnerable to erosion
- Hard engineering strategies: groynes & sea wall
- Soft engineering strategies: allowing the cliffs to erode
- Its main industry is tourism
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| Shoreline Management Plans: |
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Managed retreat - Allow the coastline to retreat but in a staged and managed way
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Advance the line - Defences are built out at sea
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Hold the line - Keep the coastline at its present position. This may require a range of engineering solutions
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Do nothing - Allow natural processes to take over, this may lead to areas of land being lost to sea
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- The human-induced change of the landscape within sight of the coastline
- Including the building of structures that are close to or on the coast.
- These structures and their related activities, both social and economic, can contribute to adverse effects on the coastal environment
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| Case Study - Happisburg, Norfolk - Managed Retreat |
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Managed retreat SMP
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People were evacuated and housed inland
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More houses were built inland to house the evacuated people
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Coastal erosion is allowed to continue - it is pointless to continue fighting it, they gave in and moved houses away from the coast
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Money was spent to ensure the evacuees were rehoused appropriately
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| Case Study - Gunn Cliff, Lyme Regis - Advance the Line |
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