{"id":394955,"date":"2026-01-28T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394955\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:17:06","slug":"government-gives-18m-to-fight-coastal-erosion-in-east-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394955\/","title":{"rendered":"Government gives \u00a318m to fight coastal erosion in East of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to the announcement, Carl Smith, Great Yarmouth Borough Council&#8217;s Conservative leader, said: &#8221;Our borough, particularly at Hemsby, continues to see the\u202fdevastating impact that coastal erosion has on the lives of our residents.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the funding was &#8220;welcome recognition that coastal erosion is something that needs to be addressed urgently at a national level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crkre16j128o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 homes<\/a> in Hemsby were at threat of collapsing into the sea, which followed 36 properties being lost to the sea or demolished since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said the new pilots would build upon the \u00a336m Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme created under Boris Johnson&#8217;s Conservative government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Blathwayt, the cabinet member and portfolio folder for coast on North Norfolk District Council, said: &#8220;These are challenging times for coastal communities across the UK, but this investment will\u202fdeliver a message of hope about the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to the announcement, Carl Smith, Great Yarmouth Borough Council&#8217;s Conservative leader, said: &#8221;Our borough, particularly at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}