Storms cause more erosion at Pagham

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Feb 2016, 08:39 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 18:41 BST
From left: Robin Henderson, Nick Gibb, Chris Dodd and Ray Radmall at the temporary defences on Pagham beachFrom left: Robin Henderson, Nick Gibb, Chris Dodd and Ray Radmall at the temporary defences on Pagham beach
From left: Robin Henderson, Nick Gibb, Chris Dodd and Ray Radmall at the temporary defences on Pagham beach

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SEVERE erosion on Pagham Beach has left the area in a critical condition.

Pagham parish councillors were told on Tuesday a glut of winter storms had swept away more than 40 per cent of the foreshore in one place.

Robin Henderson, the chairman of the Pagham Flood Defence Trust sub-group, said: “This is becoming extremely serious for everyone. The situation is like a patient on life support. After a certain stage, it is not recoverable.”

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The amount of extreme weather in the past three months had begun to see the erosion of the foreshore move from Pagham Yacht Club towards Aldwick.

“Since early December, we have lost 9m of beach out of 21m. That’s about 42 per cent,” he said.

“Behind East Front Road there’s a big drop down towards the rest of Pagham. We have obviously got some big problems.”

The erosion is caused by the strong tides out of Pagham Harbour which are being forced against the beach by the ever-growing Church Norton Spit