Work is resulting from originate on attach in early 2023 on schemes to offer protection to greater than 4,000 properties within town.
Two sections of sea defences will be refurbished – 1.5km from Princes Intention at Tiny Bispham to Pink Bank Road, Bispham and 1.3 km from Gynn Sq. to Cocker Sq.. The novel defences, constructed within the 1980s, were typically maintained, the council said, but are truly life expired and short of replacement. By changing the defences now sooner than any erosion of the steep cliffs takes attach will steer certain of the want for pricey emergency works.
Within the previous 30 years Blackpool Council has spent greater than £150m on coastal infrastructure.
Engineers grasp determined the most bright respond for every and every stretch of coastline now being addressed. Essentially the most smartly liked alternate choices that would possibly maybe now be taken to detailed originate for every and every bit are:
- Princes Intention to Pink Bank Road – refurbishing the novel defences together with bolstered toe protection and bolstered concrete slabs overlaid onto the novel revetment
- Gynn Sq. to Cocker Sq. – seabee revetment (as frail at South Shore) overlaid onto the novel revetment and landscape/ environmental improvements inshore of inch.
Both schemes will gaze improvements to win genuine of entry to steps and slipways, replacement of the crest wall and the introduction of original fishtail rock headlands and groynes.
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