{"id":484536,"date":"2026-03-19T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:41:08","slug":"storm-hit-communities-in-devon-cornwall-and-channel-islands-still-recovering-after-wet-and-windy-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484536\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm-hit communities in Devon, Cornwall and Channel Islands still recovering after wet and windy winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environment Agency ‘throwing kitchen sink’ at Torcross ‘problem’published at 18:28 GMT<\/p>\n

18:28 GMT<\/p>\n

Zhara Simpson
BBC South West<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

George Arnison from the Environment Agency (EA) says the company is “throwing the kitchen sink” to fix storm damage at Torcross.<\/p>\n

He said the EA saw this as an emergency and that communities, authorities, and society as a whole were feeling the pressure.<\/p>\n

“We’re throwing the kitchen sink at this problem now,” he said.<\/p>\n

Arnison says the fundamental problem is the “very sudden and severe loss of the beach” which has left the bottom of the sea defence exposed to the waves. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019re trying to do now is to mitigate from the
\nloss of the beach and replace what used to be beach, now air, with rock armour,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We are really trying to do that at pace – ideally before next winter\u2019s storms
\nand that\u2019s a real challenge.”<\/p>\n

Discussions are ongoing around finances, but he feels confident there will be a clearer plan soon.<\/p>\n

“Then we\u2019re in a whole world of engineering
\nchallenges, how do we work here with inter-tidal conditions, the weather, we
\nhave to get rock here from far away. <\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a lot of challenges, but we are
\ndoing everything we possibly can to meet that challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Agency ‘throwing kitchen sink’ at Torcross ‘problem’published at 18:28 GMT 18:28 GMT Zhara SimpsonBBC South West George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-484536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484536","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=484536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}