Please use the following acknowledgement in any publications or reports: futurecoast (DEFRA 2002, Environment Agency 2018).
Abstract
The futurecoast project was commissioned by Defra in 2002 to support the Shoreline Management Review process. It collated and assessed available knowledge on past change at different scales, and described the way in which our coastline might be expected to evolve in the coming decades. The project was originally distributed on CD but over time access to information has declined. Much of the knowledge and assessment remains relevant so the Defra/EA/WG Research and Development programme has funded this new route to the futurecoast datasets making them readily useable for years to come.
All the essential information (GIS layers and associated >3,000 pages of text) has been converted into an ArcGIS and a QGIS project that can now be downloaded. Some background layers could not be included due to license restrictions, but substitutes are freely available for most (suggestions current in 2018 can be found at the end of this page). The futurecoast text can be directly accessed through the enclosed HTML-file and through info and hyperlink tools within the relevant GIS environment.
The oblique aerial photography provided through the SnapMap viewer has not been part of the conversion.