Notice: Wareham, Dorset: Redcliffe Banks resilience project

The Environment Agency gives notice that it proposes to carry out improvement work to 2 sections of Redcliffe Bank on the right bank of the River Frome downstream from Wareham, Dorset: approximately 77m of bank near Redcliffe Yacht Club and 110m of bank near Redcliffe boat yard (NGR SY 93503 87281). The objective is to restore the Redcliffe bank to its original design level and cross section. This is in line with the approved Poole and Wareham Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy 2013.

The proposed works will involve:

• mobilisation of a site compound
• removing vegetation from the crest and landward face of the embankment
• using soil fill from landward side of the embankment to raise the bank to the required level
• desilting the parallel Delph ditch which has become blocked and overgrown
• placing material from desilting to bring the embankment to its final level
• demobilising the site compound