Funding and Management

The Programme is expected to cost approx £7.2m over a period of five years, but with an expectation that the Programme will continue long term. It is 100% grant aided by DEFRA. Funding commenced in April 2006. Data will be collected via a series of contracts which were awarded in late 2006/ early 2007.

Large quantities of data will be made freely available from the survey and analysis programme; this is expected to be useful to Local Authorities within the region, the Environment Agency, consultants in coastal defence, conservation management, academic research and for educational purposes.