COAST PROTECTION - GORLESTON PROMENADE

I refer to my letter dated 1 October 2004 and I am pleased to enclose for your information a copy of the minutes collated from the notes of the meeting held at Gorleston Library on Wednesday 29 September 2004.

May I thank those of you who contacted both myself and Bernard Harris (Great Yarmouth Borough Services Ltd) following the initial letter - I hope you find the points you raised are now included in the "answers to the questions".

At the meeting the following people put themselves forward to meet with our Consultants Halcrow; J Campbell, A Cunningham, D Partridge, M Smith, T Watson, N Ward,. Copies of the Consultants' Report have been made and are being delivered to them.

Deposit copies of the Report are also available to view at Gorleston Library and the Great Yarmouth Town Hall main Reception. The Gorleston display will be put into the Town Hall foyer next week (last week Norfolk County Council information was occupying the available space).

Bernard is arranging the date for your Representatives to meee with Halcrow - we hope a suitable mutually convenient date by the end of November will be possible. An agreed note from that meeting will be produced and sent to yourselves and our Cabinet Memebers prior to arranging a follow-up public meeting at a venue in Gorleston.

The notes and comments from that further public meeting will be put together with the finalised consultants' report to the Borough Councils' Cabinet in early January.

We hope to be able to put a proposal to DEFRA for their consideration by March 2005.

Yours sincerely

John Hemsworth

Head of Environment and Health