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CLA president highlights coastal access problems for Solent shorelineCLA president William Worsley visited property owners from the north shore of the Solent and the Isle of Wight last week to discuss the impact of newly enacted coastal access legislation. The Marine and Coastal Access Act aims to create a 4 m-wide corridor of access all around the coast of England and Wales, including "spreading room" from the corridor to the coast. William explained how CLA influence had made the Marine and Coastal Access Act more workable for coastal dwellers by ensuring that gardens and parks were excluded from the legislation, and that thanks to the CLA, owners of land on the coast had a right of appeal if they were concerned about the effect of the Act's implementation on their livelihood. The coastal corridor faces huge practical challenges, however.
"From the first proposal of this bill, we aimed to make it as workable as possible for those affected. We suspect it is a far bigger challenge than the bill's proponents ever imagined" said William.
The visit to the coastline east of Lymington highlighted many of the problems which will be faced by those charged with bringing the coastal access legislation into being. "If the corridor has to be well inland, it rather loses its purpose, and the spreading room towards the coast would take in swathes of agricultural land and environmentally-sensitive marsh land. Added to this is the complication that the coast itself is subject to constant erosion," said William.
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