BCP Council (legacy councils) projects carried out prior to 2015 have also been included here, with content copied from the original poolebay.net website first published in 2005.

A new Flood and Coastal Erosion Management (FCERM) Strategy to guide how the frontage from Hengistbury Head to Hurst Spit, encompassing Christchurch Harbour, will be sustainably managed for the next 100 years.
Works to protect the cliffs and beach at Seaton Hole, East Devon, are designed to reduce erosion and lower the risk of cliff falls, helping protect the coastline and 41 homes nearby.

Repairs to the eastern end of the seawall form part of BCP Council’s seafront investment projects funded by UK Government.

As part of the 17-year Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme, the Long Groyne was repaired & upgraded between April - October 2024

A two-year programme, to renew seven life-expired timber groynes from west of Bournemouth Pier to East Cliff, just below the East Cliff Lift

Recycling existing beach material to adjust levels at Avon, Friars Cliff and Highcliffe beaches, carrying out repairs to the existing rock groynes across the Christchurch frontage, and placing additional ...

A programme of stabilisation works to address the 2017 landslip below Cliff Drive, Poole.This scheme supports the £9.5 million investment programme on Poole's seafront and the plans to convert the Canford ...

Some 350,500m³ of dredged material was distributed on seven depleted beach areas between Solent Path, Southbourne and Shore Road, Poole

A two-year, £1.84 million programme to renew eight life-expired timber groynes from the boundary of Poole/Bournemouth to West Cliff zig-zag

New flood defence structures for the Creekmoor and Sterte Channels, housing tidal valves to prevent tidal water travelling back up the channels during high tides.

'Delivering benefits through evidence: Trialling a new approach to beach replenishment in Poole Bay' is the Environment Agency's 2018 report of a year-long programme of fieldwork by the Borough of Poole Coast Protection Team.

As part of the 17-year Poole Bay Beach Management Scheme, 355,500m³ of dredged material was distributed on the beach between Bournemouth Pier and Solent Beach (existing groyne No. B16 in the west to No. B36 in the east)
10 timber groynes replaced as part of the Poole Bay Beach Management Plan, from east of Boscombe Pier by Honeycomb Chine, to Fisherman’s Walk near the zigzag path (groyne Nos. C27 to C36).

A project to safeguard the integrity of the town’s quay structures whilst enabling the Environment Agency to address the requirements to improve flood defences.
A 5-year project to ascertain whether it is possible to create areas of salt marsh and sand dunes for use as a form of sea defence in Poole Harbour.

Working with the natural landscape to prevent flooding of commercial and residential property and to improve water quality.
£1.8 million funding awarded to renourish the storm damaged beaches between Shore Road beach & Branksome beach, and a further £175,000 to repair damage to the sea wall at Baiter
Bournemouth Beach Improvement Schemes (BIS) 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 - during the three years 2008-2010 the council pledged to make good annual losses to keep the beach at a constant level and volume
A £1 million project to repair Bournemouth's timber groynes No 51 & 52 (Southbourne), and original concrete groynes Nos 18 & 19 (Boscombe)
A £1.9 million, five month project to create five new rock groynes between Branksome Chine and Branksome Dene Chine. Construction was completed May 2009.

A two-phase coast protection project carried out over the winters of 2005/06 and 2006/07. The beaches of Swanage, Poole and Bournemouth were renourished with a total of 1.8 million m³ of sand dredged from Poole Harbour channels and approaches (Phase I) and a Licensed Dredging Area off the Isle of Wight (Phase II)
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