Sentences with phrase «natural coastal defences»

One is geomorphological: erosion provides the sediment that builds up the natural coastal defences of other areas of coastline, by forming marshes or beaches, shingle bars or mud flats.

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In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

The National Audit Office's report on British coastal defences last year highlighted breaches of Hurst Spit in Hampshire, which «are due mainly to the construction of concrete sea walls and groynes further to the west in Christchurch Bay, which interrupted the natural drift of replenishing material».