Futures Forum: Sidmouth Beach Management Plan Steering Group - questions for the consultation event: Thurs 6th March
To reiterate:
I still hold very firmly to the belief that the best thing that the Salcombe Hill Residents’ Association could do, both for themselves and for Sidmouth, would be to put a row of garden sheds at the far end of their gardens. Fill them with reinforcing and with a strong-mix concrete and wait for them to fall to the beach below to form a natural rock revetment. Natural England and the Jurassic Coast organisation could do nothing to stop this as garden huts don’t need planning permission for outbuildings up to a total of 10 sq mtres in plan.
It is an opportunity to create a Mach-type art installation on the beach below, just as Mach did in Kingston upon Thames. The huts could form wind-breaks for planting much-needed trees in front as a visual screen in their gardens and to soak up the surface water which further destabilises the cliffs.
If people didn’t want to “go modern” with this sort of installation art, then they could equally well construct a giant rockery at the end of their gardens - again without needing planning permission. Perhaps the Keith Owen Fund would make a donation to Salcombe Hill householders who did this?
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