This document discusses coastal management strategies along the Holderness Coast in northeast England. It provides learning objectives and outcomes about evaluating different management strategies using GIS maps and linking them to the Shoreline Management Plan for the area. The tasks involve matching terms to pictures, identifying locations on a satellite image, and annotating images to discuss positives and negatives of the management strategies selected for different locations. It also prompts brainstorming additional ideas to help answer an exam question about coastal management along the Holderness Coast using an integrated approach.

1. Case Study: The Holderness
Coast, NE England
Learning Objectives:
To know and evaluate the range of management strategies used
across the Holderness Coast
Learning Outcomes:
To use GIS maps to and link coastal management strategies to
the SMP for the Holderness Coast

2. Tasks:
1. Match the words to the pictures. Use this to write a definition
of the key term.
2. Decide which location the satellite image is showing.
• Complete the table next to the map
• Annotate the image: Positives and negatives of that type of
management and why you think they selected to use it in that
particular location
3. As a group use the work we have completed today, the
resource and your knowledge of GIS to help brainstorm ideas
to help answer the exam question.
Case Study: The Holderness
Coast, NE England

3. Tasks:
1. Match the words to the pictures.
2. Use this to write a definition of the key term.
3. Check the answers of the group next to you and make any
relevant corrections
Case Study: The Holderness
Coast, NE England

4. Integrated coastal management: Shoreline Management Plan (SMP):
Hold the Line: Advance the Line:
Retreat the Line: Do Nothing:

5. Holderness Coast
Sediment Cell

6. Hornsea
Mappleton /
Great Cowden
Withensea
Easington
Spurn Head
Coastal
Management along
the Holderness
Coast
Task: Decide which location the satellite image is showing using the
descriptions
• Complete the table next to the map
• Annotate the image: Positives and negatives of that type of
management and why you think they selected to use it in that
particular location
Example:
Skipsea

7. Example: Skipsea
Location Skipsea
SMP method Hold the line / Do nothing
Management Gabions (cages of rock)
Hard or Soft
Engineering
Hard (Gabions), Soft (do
nothing)
Gabion cages built by
local landowner to
protect caravan park
Have been successful
in stopping erosion
Expensive, as landowner
has only been able to
afford to protect a small
area
Landowner has protected this area as the
leisure park is worth the cost of the gabions.
Not all is protected as the caravans can be
moved away as the coast retreats
Erosion either side of the
gabions has continued
Gabions are cheaper than
sea walls and groynes, this
has enabled a private
landowner to pay for them

8. Hornsea
Location
SMP method
Management
Hard or Soft
Engineering

9. Mappleton
Location
SMP method
Management
Hard or Soft
Engineering

10. Withensea
Location
SMP method
Management
Hard or Soft
Engineering

11. Easington
Location
SMP method
Management
Hard or Soft
Engineering

12. Spurn Head
Location
SMP method
Management
Hard or Soft
Engineering

13. Task: As a group use ideas form the work
we have completed today, the resource
and your knowledge of GIS to help
brainstorm ideas to answer the exam
question.
Rotate your work and add at least one new
idea to the work of other groups

15. Coastal management along the Holderness
Coast?
Integrated Coastal Management
• Means that sections of the coast are managed as a whole, rather than by
individual towns or villages. Coastal engineers now realise that actions in one
place have effects in other areas.
• Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) are used to manage smaller sub cell area.
All local interest groups are consulted before taking one of the following options.
1. Do Nothing: e.g. let existing defences collapse
2. Hold the Line: e.g. keep the coastline where it is by using hard
engineering
3. Advance the Line: e.g. build coastal defences further out to sea –
breakwaters
4. Retreat the Line: e.g. allow the coast to erode back to a defined line
The SMP for the Holderness Coast is:
• Hold the line in places of economic value – e.g. Gas pipe terminal at
Easington and towns at Bridlington and Hornsea
• Do nothing in areas where nothing is worth protecting from erosion.
Unprotected areas will eventually from bays. These will become more
sheltered, and erosion should stabilise
What are the positives and negatives of Integrated Coastal Management

16. Coastal management along the Holderness
Coast?
Positives
• Combines hard engineering (for
places of economic value needing a
strategy of hold the line) with soft
engineering which is more
sustainable and long term for areas
of lower value or with valued eco-
systems.
• They manage the coastline (sediment
cell) as a whole so consider any
consequences of management
schemes on different areas of the
coastline.
• They take into account the views of
many local interest groups, so should
be of benefit to most.
Negatives
• It can be difficult and time
consuming to consult lots of
different players, with different
priorities.
• Hard engineering (holding the line) is
expensive and can be short term.
• Holding the line in one place can have
increased impacts in other areas.
E.g. Mappleton – rock groynes
leading to increased erosion in Great
Cowden.
• Managed retreat (do nothing) is
often unpopular, it can be seen as an
‘easy opt out’ and can be politically
difficult to execute.
What are the positives and negatives of Integrated Coastal Management

17. May 2012