Pevensey Bay Life: The weekly news magazine on the web
Eastbourne Works Shortlisted for ICE Award Pevensey Coastal Defence Limited’s recent beach recharge works on Eastbourne’s seafront has been shortlisted for a prestigious 2012 Engineering Excellence Award. The Engineering Excellence Awards showcase the best civil engineering projects in the region in any given year, with the judges rewarding projects that reflect aspects of the ICE’s… [Continue Reading]
As part of Eastbourne’s approved 5 Year Beach Management Strategy, the last week in March will see further beach replenishment shingle being added to seafront beaches. Pevensey Coastal Defence Ltd. are carrying out the works on behalf of Eastbourne Borough Council as part of the Coast Protection Maintenance Contract. The total estimated replenishment volume required… [Continue Reading]
General Recycling (Duration: 2 weeks). Although we may be nearing the end of winter, there are still some significant tides to be negotiated in March and April. Indeed spring tides in March have been a problem for us several times in recent years. With this in mind we will be starting the next round of… [Continue Reading]
REPORT: JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION: Coastal areas of the UK may be severely affected by climate change in the future. Some are already experiencing extreme storms or floods and the effects of sea level rise and coastal erosion. Climate change will pose risks and challenges for people, coastal economies and local industry. It may also affect… [Continue Reading]
Pevensey Bay Coastal Defence Limited, sponsors of Bay Life, and the company that has successfully been maintaining Pevensey Bay’s beaches for the last ten years, has won the contract to renourish and recycle beach on Eastbourne’s seafront. Worth £4m, work will start at the end of January and be completed before the end of March.… [Continue Reading]
STORY SOURCE—PEVENSEY BAY COASTAL DEFENCE TEAM WEBSITE : GROYNE WORKS : At the start of the PFI contract in 2000, there were 150 groynes between Sovereign Harbour and Cooden, many of which were at the end of their useful life. Replacing them would have cost around 12 million – 40% of the 25 year project… [Continue Reading]
An 81-year-old man died following a car crash. Frederick Oakham, of Timberlaine Road, Pevensey Bay, was in the passenger seat of a Vauxhall Xafira that crashed with a Vauxhall van in Eastbourne Road, Pevensey Bay, just after 11am on Friday. He died in hospital on Saturday. The driver of the car, a 76-year old woman,… [Continue Reading]
Many hundreds of spectators are expected to line the route through Pevensey Bay to cheer on the six torchbearers taking turns to carry the Olympic Flame on Tuesday 17 July. Rolling road closures will be put in place along the High Street and Wallsend Road minutes before the convoy comes through on 17 July to… [Continue Reading]
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