Preferred Blyth Estuary Strategy

Draft Strategy consultation response: The Blyth Estuary draft strategy was issued for consultation in September 2007, and the consultation ended on 29th February 2008.  Our consultation response report analyses the responses and identifies the changes that have been made to the strategy.
Strategy Consultation Reponse (49 KB)

Strategy Appraisal Report Summary Document:  This document was prepared to explain the proposed strategy to the Anglian (Eastern) Flood Defence Committee at its meeting on Friday 26th September 2008.  It explains the background to the development of the strategy, summarises the options appraisal process and identifies the actions that are now proposed.
Strategy Appraisal Report (1.1 MB)

A handout detailing the Blyth Estuary draft strategy is now available following this link. Drop in sessions were held on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th September.

If you have any comments then please contact the team, link to "Contact Us" page

We have undertaken a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of our draft strategy. The Non Technical Summary of our SEA Environmental Report and the full Environment Report are available through the links below. Due to the large file size of the Environmental Report we have split this up into a number of parts.

Non Technical Summary (640 KB)

SEA Environmental Report:
Part 1 (1.5 MB)
Part 2 (6 MB)
Part 3 (3.5 MB)
Part 4 (4.5 MB)
Part 5 (5 MB)
Appendices (11 MB)

Hard copies of these reports are also available to view at the libraries at Southwold and Halesworth and at our Eastern Area Office, Cobham Road, Ipswich. The consultation period for the draft strategy ran from 28th September 2007 to the 29th February 2008.

The following supporting technical documents are now available to view.
Technical Report (15 MB)
Economics Report (3.1 MB)
Costing Report (350 KB)

Hard copies of these technical reports are available to view at our Eastern Area Office, Cobham Road, Ipswich.