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Monday 5th May 2008. Welcome to RossMag. Today is dull and cloudy at this early hour, hopefully it will improve as the day goes on. The weather over this Bank Holiday Weekend has been good so far. We are enjoying another National Trading Day, all the major retailers are advertising their wares on TV offering to relieve us of our hard earned cash with such offers as 'Up to 60% Off'. 'Great Value for you'. All sort of other inducements!
This raises the thought that 1% or less is also encompassed within the statement 'up to 60% off' and we rarely notice any reduction in prices during the sale from those advertised previously. Perhaps it is just that we go to the wrong retailers? Bank Holiday locally is quiet, it could be the rapidly increasing cost of petrol and diesel, the daily increase in the cost of living that is currently affecting us all in the UK!
The children nationally were given a valuable lesson by some of their teachers on Thursday 24th April when they took part in a one-day strike and managed to close many of our local schools. This action demonstrates to our aspiring workforce that 'Might is Right' and that even those engaged in the professions can plead relative poverty whilst others in the population are struggling to meet ever rising bills and increasing levels of taxation!
Regular visitors to our pages will be aware that we at RossMag have been engaged for many years in publicising the North Coast of Norfolk as a good area of the UK for visiting and taking holiday breaks. At the end of March the Daily Telegraph ran a report on the future of the Natural England and Environment Agency study into Sea Defences on our coastline.
In extracts taken from this, highly speculative report, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/easwamp131.xml it is stated that: -
//…….. Further plans to abandon parts of the coast of Eastern England to the sea are expected from the Environment Agency this year, following the suggestion that six villages around the Norfolk Broads might have to be given up to flooding within the next 100 years.
The six Norfolk villages at risk under the Natural England proposal are Eccles, Sea Palling, Waxham, Horsey, Hickling and Potter Heigham
Natural England's study follows the Environment Agency's proposed withdrawal of maintenance of sea defences in the Blyth estuary, between Walberswick and Southwold, last autumn, which campaigners believe is likely to be a test case for estuaries along the coast. Campaigners say a policy change at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has led to the presumption that coastal management will be withdrawn in areas where the cost to the public cannot be justified……..//
The area thus affected encompasses miles of farmland, fine sandy beaches, holiday locations, villages and towns including Seabreeze Campsite. If these idiotic proposals were ever to be implemented it would be a national catastrophe and disastrous to the local economy. Even if the government were ever to accept the suggestions from Natural England, The Environment Agency via DEFRA we are talking 50 to 100 years. Remember Governments change every four years, policies change even more often!
We must also remember that the world is facing a food shortage (due in part to environmentally friendly fuel production) over the next few years. There is pressure on farmland for crop production as is a need for extra housing due to population growth. Do you think that any administration, of whatever political persuasion would allow the destruction of housing and farmland on this scale? It would be political suicide!
In the meantime damage has already being done to the area, land and house prices have plummeted. Property sales have been cancelled at the last moment, it is time to quash this matter before any further harm is done!
A few weeks ago this area of our coast was warned of a tidal surge which was expected to devastate the area (doom and gloom) what happened? There was some sand moved about on the beach but the sea wall remained intact. This so-called 'catastrophic' event is expected to happen every 50 years or so!
We at RossMag, like many other families, have been taking our holidays in Norfolk for far more years than we care to remember. Whilst we will be able to continue to go on holiday on the north Norfolk coast during our lifetime we must try to use every means possible to ensure that future generations may also be able to do so!
There are not many ways that the person in the street can influence decisions. However the attention of Parliamentarians and Councillors is instinctively drawn to anything that could jeopardise their chances of re-election, and thereby interrupt their comfortable lifestyle. We suggest that writing to your local MEP, MP, Councillor or signing the on-line petition is the most effective way to show solidarity with the inhabitants of this unfairly blighted community. We urge all our visitors to support the inhabitants of the North Norfolk coast. Please continue to visit and take holidays in the region where you will be made to feel most welcome and damn all scaremongers!
On-line petition: - http://www.happisburgh.org.uk/ and then click on 'news and pictures of erosion' then click on 'sign our petition' and then click on 'news and pictures of erosion' then click on 'sign our petition'
If you too are concerned about the future well being of our coastline we ask you to contact your MP and ask them to reject outright of the recommendations of all agencies concerned including DEFRA and their NGO's who do not have much of a record for reliability. In the meantime the good citizens and business' of the coastal areas of Norfolk including Seabreeze Campsite will continue to get on with their lives safe in the knowledge that this is all speculation!
That is all for this month. Please explore our holiday pages and visit us again in the future! . . . . . . . . . .RossMag
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