Holderness Coast

• Key Points

  • Flambourgh Head
  • Spurn head
  • Bridlington Bay
• Hard Engineering

  • sea wall
  • groynes
  • offshore reef
  • rock armour
  • gabions
• soft engineering

  • beach replenishment
  • managed retreat
• Human activity on the Holderness coast

  tourism, climate change, coastal management
• tourism- positives

  • £20 million annually
  • employs over 1000 people
• tourism- negatives

  • jobs are only seasonal
  • increase in congestion and pollution
  • adds weight to the coastline
• coastal management- positive

  • Mappleton- groyne
  • bridlington - sea wall
  • protects the coastline from erosion
• coastal management- negative

  • visual pollution
  • expensive to build/ upkeep
  • environmentalist conflict
• climate change- positives

  • warmer summers
  • more tourists
  • increased income
• climate change- negative

  • sea levels rising
  • increased stormy conditions
  • more destructive waves