Find out more about the works we complete on an annual basis along the Hunstanton coastline
2022-23 financial year
During the 2022-23 financial year we undertook a range of routine works to the Hunstanton sea defences. This included:
- Concrete repairs to slipways, the promenade and seawall
- Mortar repairs to the seawall
- Routine maintenance of all floodgates
- Repairs to navigation markers
- Jetting of Borough Council owned outfalls
- Health and safety works
The total cost of routine and repair works for the 2022-23 financial year was £66,863.80.
You can view the full breakdown of how this was spent alongside photograph examples of works undertaken below:
2023-24 financial year
During the 2023-24 financial year we undertook a range of routine works to the Hunstanton sea defences. This included:
- Concrete repairs to slipways, the promenade and seawall
- Repairs to navigation markers
- Jetting and routine repairs to Borough Council owned outfalls
- Health and safety works.
The total cost of routine and repair works for the 2023-24 financial year was £186,248.10
You can view the full breakdown of how this was spent alongside photograph examples of works undertaken below:
2024-25 Financial Year
So far this financial year, we have already commissioned a number of routine works to the Hunstanton sea defences. This incudes:
- Extension of handrailing on slipway
- Replacement of handrailing on promenade
- Routine maintenance and repairs to concrete sea defences
- Health and safety work to timber groynes and handrails
Total cost of routine and repair works for the 2024-25 financial year, as of June 2024, is £86,988.36.
You can view a full breakdown of how these funds are being spent below:
Upcoming repair works
Since March 2024, we have undertaken an annual visual asset inspection survey of all the concrete sea defences alongside health and safety inspections of the timber and concrete groynes.
Outcomes of these inspections have informed routine maintenance and repairs required, including 97 repairs to various aspects of the concrete sea defences alongside health and safety works to the timber groynes. See below for a summary of the repair works identified.
Identified repair works for 2024-2025
- Replacement of sealant for 56 joints on the wave-return wall
- Replacement of sealant for 14 joints on the promenade and slipways
- Replacement of six mortar joints on the blockwork seawall
- Five concrete patch repairs to the wave-return wall
- Five concrete patch repairs to slipways
- Five concrete patch repairs to the seawall
- Three concrete patch repairs to the promenade
- Two concrete repairs to beach access steps
- Cutting tops of timber groyne stakes with pointed ends flat
- Securing loose timber groyne elements with additional fixings
These repairs will be undertaken by Southbay Civil Engineering Ltd who have previously undertaken successful repair packages to the Hunstanton sea defences in spring and autumn 2023.
This repair package will cost £60,083.60 and shall be fully funded by the Borough Council.
Repair works will take 15 working days to complete and are due to commence on 1 July 2024 and are due to be completed by 19 July.
To provide more information about this repair package, a frequently asked questions document and example images of the repairs identified have been produced.
Further information
If you need to speak to us about annual works undertaken to the Hunstanton coastal defences, you can contact us at any time by email at floodandwatermanagement@west-norfolk.gov.uk.