AndyK
Well-known member
4km from warren to point.At the point there's no loo,and no facilities.Just a very nice place to do some birding.
yeh i've been a few times but always gone down in the car
4km from warren to point.At the point there's no loo,and no facilities.Just a very nice place to do some birding.
To be fair you cant expect a charity to keep on plunging thousands (millions?) of pounds into a road that's going to keep getting washed away.
Wonder if the road could be built like a causeway able to cope with being submerged regularly like the road to lindisfarne for example. Is this a cost issue or is the tide simply too violent at spurn?
On a related issue, what is happening to the plans to refurbish the lighthouse using the lottery funds. And for that matter what about the houses?
Looking at it last week it's quite a climb for an able-bodied person, so I can't imagine how a wheelchair user could manage!
Is it just me but I think Spurn is an ephemeral product of North Sea longshore drift. Which relocates every 50 years or so! It may be an inconvenience to all of us not having a road there atm but the sands will stabilise at some point of nature's choosing , for a few years , littorial areas exsit in a state of flux and to see how stable boulder clay is , look how much of Linconshires coast has been lost!The road has always been on top of the sand spit and the problem is that it gets undercut and collapses. Even the temporary roads they have laid over the past 20 years or so are still on sand.
What you suggest makes sense. If the sand all gets washed away then there is much more resilient boulder clay beneath it. A causeway could be built on that and the tides would go over it rather than under it. Might work, but how expensive would it be and how long before even the clay erodes? Thinking about causeways at Lindisfarne and Marazion it must be a possibility though.
Steve
Hi. Where did you learn of the change of plans for the road.GOOD NEWS it looks like the road will be restored after all
Wasn't it a mistake in the Hull Daily Mail?
I think someone corrected it on Facebook.
Steve