00:00 Concerns have been raised the Environment Agency's £7 million beach replenishment scheme is no longer protecting the Lincolnshire coast.
00:10 As I was saying, the rocks are getting buried by the sand but putting on the beach every time you get the big tides the waves are there.
00:19 We're stretching the rocks instead of breaking the waves up the theatre rocks.
00:22 You raised concerns about sea defences at the last Skegness Town Council meeting didn't you?
00:28 Why is that?
00:30 Well the reason being now the sea level is rising and every big tide we're getting is coming straight up over the beach now as you can see.
00:38 Dry lagoons, look, we're getting down here now look.
00:43 All our people, the worst thing about it all is we've been putting sand, we've been putting the beaches in the sand since 1994
00:53 and now the sand moves, moves with the tide, travels north to south.
00:59 And of course when the sand moves all the way from the flood defence it's leaving it exposed and now the waves are hitting that flood defence and the salt water is eroding the concrete.
01:10 And I can't see these flood defences lasting another 5 to 10 years and that will be it.
01:16 And now as I say we've got this one to go, we've got the next one to go, the year of the storm, it could be a big one and it could make 1953 look like a walk in the park.
01:27 Of course the next one could be really nasty.
01:30 You put forward a motion to work with other councils to find out more from the Environment Agency about what their plans are.
01:45 Are you pleased that that motion was passed?
01:48 Oh yes I am pleased it was passed because now we can get them all in from Mabelthorpe Chapel and Invermouth all the way down there and we can now see what we're doing with it.
02:00 Skegness Town Council has also expressed an interest in joining another partnership of district councils who are already working with the Environment Agency to find a solution.
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