“Unless that enormously expensive survey can be extended from 2Km offshore to the areas where the dredging occurs, the beach and cliff material that is drawn down and drifts out to the vacated 'pits' cannot be related the source and destination of the shoreline material. And who needs another survey anyway ? Many have been performed since the correlation between offshore aggregate dredging and coastal erosion was first evidenced over 100 years ago. Many of these research papers may be seen by going to http://www.marinet.org.uk/mad/scientificstudies.html to read 'Scientific Studies from around the world on the erosion resulting from offshore sand and gravel dredging' and reading the full briefing on the issue at http://www.marinet.org.uk/mad/madbrief.html A further survey seems superfluous when a simple read of the past findings is so easily and cheaply accomplished. Pat Gowen - MARINET”

“This study is ridiculous. Whilst I am very sorry for the people who've had to move out of their homes this study will find nothing new. As taught in primary schools, high schools & at university level- where there is long shore drift and groynes & sea defences built higher up, the silt/clay cliffs like those of the Holderness coastline will erode very quickly! I highly doubt the seabed has that much to do with it, but even if it does, £400K is a bit excessive surely?”

“If you dont want your house to fall into the sea DONT buy a house on the cliff edge.I did not think any house in Aldbrough was worth 35k,will have to go now the tides coming in.”

“thought I was reading an April's fool story!.
It dosn't matter how much money is spent on producing a (let me get this straight) "an accurate map of the seabed". the houses will eventually fall into the sea. lessons to be learnt here I'd say.Money to drift away like the sands of time.”

“Remember when you were a kid and you dug a hole in the wet sand at South Bay Scarborough? What happens? Reach the water level and the sides start to fall in. You can't stop them. Now imagine the water is the sea, the hole is where the gravel used to be before we granted extraction rites to private companies with friends in high places, and the sand caving in at the sides is... yes, you got it, Aldbrough cliffs. It's all due to a bizarre phenomenon discovered by Isaac Newton quite a long time ago when an apple fell on him. It¿s rocket science. There, I¿ve just saved my fellow tax payers £400K and filled the gap in Neil McLachlan¿s knowledge.

That¿s one other thing certain besides death and taxes ¿ coastal erosion. You could use the pages of the study to paper over the cliff face for all the practical good it¿s going to do. It might hold out for one wave or maybe two¿”

“Squirtle Turtle, In Michelle, & rachel, Hull thanks for you bigoted views against vulnerable people duped out their savings,
to the question in point, there has been millions of tons of gravel dredged from the sea bed in this area and sold to the Dutch and used ironically for sea defences, coincidentally a former environment minster is a non executive director of the main dredging contractor who won the contract to do this, what a suprise. Instead of wasting £400K why not spend it on Sea defences,
Simples.”

“Well spotted Squirtle Turtle, In Michelle I wonder if the Nigerian scammers are behind this coastal survey as well!”

“Isn't this the Ray Kaye who lost all his savings to junk mail scams? as featured in the mail several weeks ago? Perhaps he should have used his money to move to a better location? Just a thought....”

“Unbelievable! Why waste all this money - most scholkids above the age of 8 can tell you all about coastal erosion. Seems another excuse for some overblown academic to spend however long wasting research money that could be spent on something far more worthwhile. Me, for example.”

“"The study, commissioned by Defra using European money". That'll be our money then?
Good Grief, what a waste...”