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The high water mark is retreating at 7m a year. As explained in the recent geomorphology study on Hoylake by Royal Haskoning, this means more of the beach is drier more often. 4x more sand is arriving on the upper beach since 2010 which is why specialist coastal plants have established and also why we are just a few years from sand overtopping the promenade.
We can decide if we want to have this new sand mostly on the beach, held there in the developing dunes, if we can prevent this happening too close to the road, or allow it to carry on into town. We currently spend £46,000 a year dealing with wind blown sand and that is with only a tiny fraction of the sand we can expect to reach the road once overtopping occurs.
The BBC Countryfile special which aired on 10th April 2022 featured Hoylake beach as an example of a developing sand dune. Successive surveys have shown that more than 160 plants, many of them dune specialists, have now been recorded on the beach, including 19 that are at risk of extinction.
The habitat itself is very rare in Britain, and most of Britain’s remaining sand dunes are eroding. The one thing we are not short of at Hoylake is sand. It’s arriving at an average of 11 truckloads a day, or 2.5cm over the entire beach in a year.
Nature is delivering lots of golden sand for us, for free; blowing it across from the Hoyle Bank when it is dry and windy. We just need to capture it, and that is exactly what the grasses are already starting to do, for free.
£46000
A year spent dealing with wind blown sand.
11
Truckloads of sand arriving at Hoylake Beach every day.
30cm
of rising sand accretion per decade.
Located in the north west of the Wirral Peninsula, the seaside town of Hoylake is a lovely place to spend a few hours, a day or even a couple of nights. Situated between the towns of Meols and West Kirby, its coastal location lends itself perfectly to walking and cycling along the stunning Wirral coastline.
