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Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
2023
Managed realignment
United Kingdom
Tamar
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In addition to intertidal habitat created through a breach in the exisitng bund another bund was created, set back within the scheme to create 4ha of freshwater habitat
14 Hectares
Biodiversity Enhancement
Climate Change (Greenhouse Gas) Mitigation
Climate Change (Sea Level Rise) Mitigation
Habitat Creation
Improve Water Quality
Reduce Flood Protection Costs
The Environment Agency implemented this project to create up to 14 hectares of new intertidal habitat and a further 4 ha of freshwater habitat at South Hooe in the Tamar estuary.
The aim of the habitat creation was to offset predicted losses of habitat caused by future sea level rise. These works were supported by Natural England and will sustain the biodiversity of the estuary helping it be more resilient to climate change.
The proposed site is located in the South Hooe peninsula on the Tamar approximately seven miles north of Plymouth and 3 miles northeast of Bere Alston. The works are on private land classed as grade 3 good to moderate quality on the Agricultural Land Classification system.
The site is owned by a single landowner and will lead to periodic tidal inundation of land owned by the same landowner. Part of the existing river bund was removed, allowing water from the Tamar estuary to flow onto the historic floodplain (land currently reclaimed as pasture) creating new intertidal habitat. Freshwater habitat to further encourage birds and other wildlife was created by building a new earth bund in the north of the site in order to exclude most tides from a portion of the existing fields.
ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ