Bye Bye Norfolk

Eric Cooper, milton keynes, uk

We have a waste disposal problem so we are all told, so why not combine the two and Turn Junk into Billion Pound land Space?

If we follow the example of the Hong Kong and China Government:

There they have built an Internationally famous Airport off of Hong Kong's coast line on rubbish waste from main land China.

Instead of wasting good arable farming land for landfill sites and gravel extraction Use the waste to shore up our sea defences which are eroding fast. Don't waste rubbish use it for good intent. Also Gravel Extraction from good arable farming land is irreversible destruction. Thus making the UK become more and more reliant on foreign imported foods which is an extremely bad policy.

carl barron, Christchurch, Dorset

Perhaps someone would parcel up Mr Viner and his cronies and send them to Hollandto see how to deal with any coastal situation.

Michael Durrans, Barnstaple,

Over the past 18 years the government has benefited by over £1.6 billion from the royalties and VAT provided from the 189 million tons of sand and shingle dredged from off the Great Yarmouth coastline alone. This is far more than enough to pay for the total protection of the entire UK coastline as well as providing compensation for those who have lost and are losing their properties and living because of the erosion resulting from this damaging commercial exploitive process.

Over thirty per cent of the aggregate dredged off our coast has been exported to Holland, where such dredging is banned due to the erosion and fishing losses brought about were it so permitted.

So why should the best part of Norfolk be abandoned ?

Pat Gowen - MARINET – The Marine Environmental Information Network, Norfolk

Pat Gowen, Norwich, UK

Why is everyone so outraged? It is presumably a fact that this part of Norfolk is increasingly vulnerable to the sea. The government has a duty to consider all options for dealing with that fact. All options includes evacuating the population and letting the sea move in. If this is the cheaper option then it frees up funding to save other areas where protection is more feasible or where more people would be affected. It's not rocket science.

Rowan, Oxford,

Well done the Pike Anglers club, 30 years of fighting for Pike Anglers and the fish they value, a club that cares about the envoirment.

Kevin langley, Ely,, England

Conservationists should start living in the real world. There wouldn't be so much flooding if rivers and gulleys could be dredged but this isn't allowed because of the damage to the wildlife. Householders who get regularly flooded must be furious. Now to destroy one of the most beautiful parts of the british isles is crazy. Climate Change is a fashionable and scientifically questionable issue but no-one is allowed to challenge it.

Alison Edwards, Scarborough,

Isn't the main reason the fact that the British Isles is still adjusting to the retreat of the ice sheets after the last ice age? It has been known for many years that the island is, so slowly, rising in the west and sinking in the east. If you want evidence, look at how far Harlech Castle is from the sea now. When it was built it was on the coast.
Blaming Climate change is just the fashionable excuse for everything at present.

m wood, somerset, uk

The Pike Anglers Club of Great Britain have launched an online petition as the first stage of a campaign to save the Thurne and its broads. We call upon anyone who loves this unique environment to join us in the fight to save it at www.savethebroads.co.uk

John Cahill, solihull, england

Bring in the Dutch.......

Conservationists go back to bed...... where you can do no damage..... maybe not....

Richard, Bucharest,