Floods: Folkestone
(asked on 7th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value of the investment by the Environment Agency in flood defences in Folkestone and Hythe constituency has been from May 2010 to date; and how much has been budgeted for further future works by that agency in that constituency.
The table below details the value of the investment by the Environment Agency in flood defences in Folkestone and Hythe constituency from May 2010 to date:
Scheme location | Outline of works | Approximate cost | Time scale |
Hythe to Folkestone | Shepway District Council manage the beach frontage and maintain shingle defences | £950,000.
| May 2010 to present and for the next 5 years. |
Dymchurch | 2.2km new defences at Dymchurch | £60,000,000 | Completed in 2011 |
Combined Hythe and Horn Street Modelling | Detailed modelling of the Hythe Streams area in conjunction with Kent County Council | Approximately £45,000
| Commenced in November 2014 and due to be completed in 2015-16. |
Mill Leese Flood Storage Reservoir | Major improvements and refurbishment of embankment and control structure | £1,700,000 | Completed in 2012. |
Greatstone | A rock groyne constructed on the beach at Greatstone to hold material that drifts along the beach from Littlestone | £298,000 | Summer 2014. |
Greatstone | Maintenance of the Sand Dunes | £75,000 | Since 2010. |
Littlestone | Beach Recharge | £1,300,000 | Due to complete by April 2015. |
Seabrook | Outfall Improvements | £120,000 | Summer 2014. |
On 2 December 2014, the Government published its programme of capital flood and coastal erosion risk management improvement works for the coming six years, up to 2021. This includes indicative allocations to the following schemes in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency:
Scheme | Allocation |
Hythe Ranges | £21,000,000 |
Lydd Ranges | £40,000,000 |
Romney Sands Coastal Defences | £1,400,000 |
Denge Secondary Defence | £2,050,000 |
Denge Beach Management | £3,000,000 |
TOTAL | £67,450,000 |
NB. The two Denge projects cross the constituency boundary.