RESOLVED that Cabinet –
a) subject to Full Council agreeing to the allocation of funding, approves the project to stabilise the damaged cliff areas at Holland-on-Sea;
b) subject to a) above, approves the inclusion of the cliff stabilisation scheme within the 2021/22 Capital Programme with a budget of £2.131m, to be funded by utilising £1.5m from the existing beach recharge reserve along with the £631k already set aside for this project;
c) recommends to Full Council that it approves the use of the £1.5m beach recharge reserve to fully fund the proposed cliff stabilisation scheme;
d) instructs officers to seek ways to generate external funding to offset cliff stabilisation costs; and
e) approves on-going representations being made to Government in the light of recent experiences and the continuing, significant and financial challenges faced by the Council in this area.