PROC145 Overstrand Coastal Management Scheme

Overstrand’s soft cliffs are protected at their toe by a sea wall, which also acts as a walkway (promenade), on which the England Coast Path passes. This sea wall is comprised of a series of integrated concrete defences which, as beach levels have dropped, have become significantly undermined in several places. As a result of the undermining, they have sustained at least two major (reflective) fractures from top to bottom. The steel sheet piles which form the base of the seawall have become severely degraded, and i...