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LTPP - Excellent cross-reference Lynne. Reading between the lines of it, it seems to me that the real win that NR would like materialised from the point of view of their long term responsibilities is to be found in Scenario 2 para.(iii). i.e. ‘...improved access and availability for regular engineering works’. Put another way, given the notorious level of difficulty maintaining the seawall ...
Fear not, today's engineers are very clever and creative in producing appropriate and robust solutions. (Possibly one reason why HR Wallingford need 18months for their analyses as coastal engineering can have unforseen hydrology outcomes if not thoroughly assessed.) Also Dawlish seems to have a very good relationship with NR. The real trick is to give design engineers a very clear remit of what ...
Have looked again at the 'seawall lecture' and the best I could find on 'stakeholders' is as follows: Ensure appropriate stakeholder involvement: There are amenity implications here. There is a management plan for the frontage. In the UK we have a structured plan which is usually lead by the Local Authority and the Environment Agency. “The stakeholders here have very different ...
Oh that's good, NR still 'striking while the iron is still hot' to get it's South West route options tabled. It seems as though there are three strands of work in progress. - NR Optioneering in the broadest sense (June 2014) - Immediate make do and mend on the Seawall (1st Oct 2014) - Detailed coastal/hydrology/cost study for 18months by HR Wallingford focussing solely on improving the ...
@Mrs C - absolutely do realise that, which is why 'stakeholder' involvement is so crucial. i.e. the 'wall redesign' schemes (basically shed loads of concrete) could mean that the pathway may have restricted views if such a wave reflection reprofiling scheme makes the wall higher than the pathway and it may be somewhat more continuous, hence blocking some access points. alternatively, a two tier ...
@Lynne - i would be very interested to see a copy thanks - presumably it will have some overlap with the lecture. 1st october was mentioned in the lecture in the context of immediate improvements (presumably 'sea lawn path raising' in particular). Would guess that the 18months is for long term major solution decision making, although I seem to recall that there was a pledge when the 'wall was ...
So here is my best effort, as promised, at capturing as much of the lecture as possible without too much of the techi bits. I have put in quotes directly transcribed parts of the lectures, the rest is paraphrased as best as possible. Skip to the five paraphrased solutions (which I think was the bit that AMM was presented with?) if it is all too much to take in!! Presenters: William ...
Absolutely, it means we have a tolerant, democratic society in which such harmless freedoms can be openly expressed. That is exactly why Putin was so incensed, freedom of speech is his biggest enemy and makes him feel vulnerable.
If you do the maths, UKIP's vote as a share of the voting population was: 34% (voting population who cast papers) * 27.5% (UKIP) = 9.35% i.e. Less than 10% actually felt strongly enough against the EU to register a 'protest vote'!! Hardly an earthquake except it was nevertheless the largest share. Make of that what you will.
You may find that this path heightening is just the first useful step of more radical longer term plans. I would be very interested if anyone knows which, if any, of the expert wall proposals this improvement will fit into (see my rough summary of the May 'Seawall' lecture at the ICE). If it is to simply match up Sea Lawn with the rest of the seawall then it doesn't fit any of the solutions ...
