Undertaking one of the UK’s most complex coastal stabilization schemes, we designed a new sea wall, cliff protection, and drainage systems providing long-term protection to nearly 500 vulnerable homes, as well as roads and local infrastructure from coastal erosion.
Lyme Regis, on the UK’s Jurassic Coast, is England’s first natural World Heritage site covering 152.8 kilometers of coastline from East Devon to Dorset. As well as being an internationally important site in terms of geology, geomorphology and ecology, it is also one of the UK’s most unstable geological settings, with years of landslides and coastal erosion leaving hundreds of homes at risk of damage.
The scheme is unusual in that its purpose is to prevent the expansion of the landslide system without stabilizing all of it, in order to meet ecological constraints. Its success is the result of a huge team effort involving all partners, alongside the local community, environmental stakeholders, subcontractors and suppliers.