Hamford Water B
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The information on this website represents the current SMP management approaches adopted by the local authorities within its area, and current actions needed to deliver them. These management approaches have been approved by the Environment Agency under its Strategic Overview for coastal flood and erosion risk management and are considered to be local policy.
The documents below provide the full SMP adopted locally and approved by the Environment Agency at the time of publication. Some of the information has changed in response to new government policy, new evidence or new work identified.
Data on this page
Main report
Appendices
- Appendix A - SMP development
- Appendix B - Stakeholder engagement
- Appendix C - Baseline processes
- Appendix D - Thematic review
- Appendix E - Policy development and appraisal
- Appendix F - Shoreline interactions & responses
- Appendix G - Policy appraisal
- Appendix H - Economics
- Appendix I - Bibliographic database
- Appendix J - Sustainability appraisal signposting
- Appendix K - Water framework directive assessment
- Appendix L - Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)
- Appendix M - Habitats regulations assessment report
Changes and addendums
Non-technical summary
About this subsection
This SMP subsection includes Hamford Water National Nature Reserve, which is internationally protected for the bird populations using the extensive areas of salt marsh and mud flat. It extends from the Dovercourt area of Harwich to the northern end of Walton on the Naze.
Apart from Titchmarsh marina, the Bramble Island business development, and the area immediately surrounding Walton Mere, the area next to or behind the defences that define the coastline is almost entirely agricultural land with some individual rural properties. This forms most of the area within the tidal flood plain.
There are also some settlements within the tidal flood plain, including parts of Dovercourt, Little Oakley, Beaumont, Kirby-Le-Soken and Walton-on-the-Naze. The B1414 crosses the tidal flood plain at Beaumont Quay and so does the B1034 near Kirby-le-Soken.
At Stone Point, the character of the shoreline changes from inter-tidal marsh backed by coastal grazing marsh to the undefended cliffs of The Naze.