{"id":661635,"date":"2026-06-27T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661635\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:54:09","slug":"drone-could-be-used-to-monitor-north-yorkshire-coastal-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661635\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone could be used to monitor North Yorkshire coastal erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drone could be deployed on the North Yorkshire coast to monitor coastal erosion as part of a government-funded scheme.<\/p>\n

A \u00a375,000 funding application has been submitted to the Environment Agency (EA) by North Yorkshire Council to deliver an enhanced project across “complex” cliff zones.<\/p>\n

If approved, the funding will include the purchase of the drone, associated licencing, data and software, and will contribute to training three officers.<\/p>\n

Using drones with laser-mapping technology would assist the council in “improving the evidence base for coastal adaptation planning, evacuation planning and coastal strategy updates”, a report said.<\/p>\n

Currently, the council relies on biennial drone monitoring, supplied through the National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes.<\/p>\n

The data is often limited in complex cliff environments due to vegetation cover, infrequent capture and delays between data collection and delivery, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several communities, including those at Flat Cliffs, in Filey, face “significant risk to residential property, access routes and essential infrastructure”, the report said.<\/p>\n

The council’s shoreline management policy for the affected coastal sites is one of “no active intervention, meaning no new coastal defences are planned”.<\/p>\n

“As a result, effective monitoring of cliff instability and erosion is essential to inform adaptation planning, early warning, evacuation planning and community engagement,” officers added.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, councillor Malcolm Taylor, executive member for highways and transportation, approved the application to the EA’s \u00a312m coastal adaptation programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone could be deployed on the North Yorkshire coast to monitor coastal erosion as part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661635","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\/661635","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=661635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}