To the editor
Recent low tides have exposed a hazard created by Pevensey Coastal Defence Ltd. PCDL They have quietly with no local consultation built a bank off the Sailing Club formed from the dredgings from Sovereign Harbour.
The licence for the work cannot be found on the public dredging register without code from MMO (Marine Monitoring Organisation) staff. The offshore reef has the apparent support of the Environment Agency.
Although against the rules laid down by the MMO the bank contains a quantity of glutinous mud dredged from the Harbour shipping channel. A local resident walked out on to the bank on a recent low tide and sank into the black sticky silt and lost a shoe and has some difficulty in escaping this hazard.
Holiday makers, shrimpers & especially children should be made aware of the new danger in what was a safe beach.
The Sailing Club are not happy about the development and are wondering why they were not consulted.
Concerned resident
EDITOR NOTE: Pevensey Bay Coastal Defence Limited has been made aware of this letter and intend to reply publicly to what has been said. They wanted to make clear at this stage that in their view no rules have been broken and no licence agreements whatsoever have been broken. At this stage they chose not to comment about anything further that has been said in the letter.
