Dear Resident

Notes of the Gorleston Coastal Protection Meeting
held at St Andrews Hall Gorleston Great Yarmouth
Tuesday 22 March 2005 7 - 9 pm

Please find the attached notes of the meeting held at St Andrews Hall Gorleston. I apologise that it has taken some time to put them out to you, but the March - April period is a particularly busy time and unfortunately there have been a number of other front line issues I have had to complete especially around end of year budget processes.

The next step - I shall be putting a report forward to Cabinet which outlines the present position recommending an early meeting with representatives of DEFRA. As you know the initial scheme was produced in close liaison with colleagues and DEFRA to meet their criteria - the revised scheme we felt had a good chance of making those same conditions. As you are aware however at the meeting, whilst there was some support, in principal for a promenade repair allied to beach monitoring it was made clear the original objection remained

It would not be financially sensible to continue to incur further costs regarding designing any scheme until we now have a clear steer from officers at DEFRA about what would satisfy their bidding criteria.

I shall do my best to keep you advised.

John Hemsworth

Head of Environment and Health