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Court case shows coastal landowners must be allowed a bigger say in coastal protection, says CLAThe CLA today (Friday, 5 December) said that retired engineer Peter Boggis' fight with Natural England to save his Suffolk home from coastal erosion has exposed Natural England's "deplorable and systematic failure" to protect the homes and land of residents. CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher said: "The ordeal Mr Boggis has been put through highlights the horrendous time coastal landowners can face when trying to protect their property against the sea.
"All Mr Boggis wanted to do was stop the sea eroding the cliff on which his home stands. The fact Natural England refused him permission to do so, just so it could monitor the effects of the erosion, is deplorable."
The CLA said that had Natural England won, Mr Boggis would not have been entitled to any compensation and it could be assumed he would have lost everything.
The CLA President added: "In any event, Natural England's position was self-evidently absurd from the outset. The whole point of designating a site a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is to protect its special features - at Easton Bavents, it was the fossil-bearing cliffs.
"But instead Natural England tried to use the SSSI controls to stop Mr Boggis protecting the cliff. It said it wanted to monitor the effects of erosion. In other words it seems Natural England was not working to protect the site, but to destroy it.
"The whole sorry episode shows that Natural England must do far more to take into account the effects its decisions have on those who own and manage rural land and property - and on what the law says."
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