Issue - meetings

To adopt the Teignmouth Beach Management Plan.

RESOLVED

That the Committee:

1)    Adopt the Teignmouth Beach Management Plan; and

2)    Work with the Environment Agency to progress the business case, national funding applications and design options to implement a range of measures to enhance coastal defence structures and management measures to mitigate coastal risks at Teignmouth and Shaldon, as set out in the Beach Management Plan.

The Executive considered a report to seek approve the Teignmouth Beach Management Plan. Councillor Hook introduced the item and the report. The Beach Management Plan was appended to the covering report, and Councillor Hook appraised the Executive of the key sections within the Plan.

Councillor Keeling spoke to this item in favour of the adoption of the Beach Management Plan.

In response to a question, the Coastal Officer clarified that the Beach Management Plan doesn’t directly cover the recent incidence of a cliff fall at The Ness, Shaldon as cause of the cliff fall was not principally due to coastal erosion.

It was PROPOSED by Councillor Hook and SECONDED by Councillor Keeling and

RESOLVED

That the Committee:

1)    Adopt the Teignmouth Beach Management Plan; and

2)    Work with the Environment Agency to progress the business case, national funding applications and design options to implement a range of measures to enhance coastal defence structures and management measures to mitigate coastal risks at Teignmouth and Shaldon, as set out in the Beach Management Plan.