DOCUMENT ARCHIVE
Links to the key documents used in our research so far…
HISTORY
- MEOLS: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast
- The Curious Case of the Cheesemongers
- Morphological evolution of the Dee Estuary, Eastern Irish Sea, UK: A tidal asymmetry approach Moore et al 2008
- Adverse Weather Conditions in Medieval Britain: An Archaeological Assessment of the Impact of Meteorological Hazards [pp18-19]
- Global and Planetary Change Journal: issue 175 (2019) (specific reference to Meols and windblown sand impact)
- MAP: C14TH_GOUGH
- MAP: 1585_SMITH
- MAP: 1646_BLAEU
- MAP: 1659_JANSSONIUM
- MAP: 1685_COLLINS
- MAP: 1715_vanKEULEN
- MAP: 1732_MACKAY
- MAP: 1752_HINTON
- MAP: 1860_COLBY
- MAP: 1871_HILL
NATURAL ENGLAND
WIRRAL COUNCIL
- Hoylake Geomorphology and Ecology Survey February 2022
- Wirral Council Brief for Ecology and Geomorphological Studies: tender document 2021
- Hoylake Beach Management Council Officers' Report March 2020
- Executive Member Decision Hoylake Beach Management March 2020
- Metropolitan Borough of Wirral (2000) The Beaches at West Kirby and Hoylake, Wirral Council, Wallasey
- Wirral Council Hoylake Beach site management agreement September 2010
- Wirral Coastal Strategy 2013
- Wirral Council Shoreline Inspection July 2018 Report (draft 02_09_18)
- Wirral Council Shoreline Inspection 2017 Report
- Wirral Council Shoreline Inspection July 2013 Report
- Beach profiles: Red Rocks to new lifeboat station
- Wirral Core Strategy Habitats Regulation Assessment – Interim Screening Assessment
- Environment Agency Assent to spray herbicides (2010)
- Natural England Assent to spray and rake (2010)
- Wirral Habitat Regulations Screening Assessment for SSSI Assent (2016)
- Scott Wilson Habitat Regulations Assessment (2010)
- North Wirral Foreshore sediment report (2015)
- North Wirral Foreshore sediment report (2010)
- Wirral Council Local Plan HRA 2022
ACADEMIC
- Sefton's Dynamic Coast: Proceedings of the conference on coastal geomorphology, biogeography and management 2008
- Nature.com: How dunes form
- A global greening of coastal dunes: An integrated consequence of climate change?
- “The Sands of Time” website produced by the ‘Sand Dune and Shingle Network’ of Liverpool Hope University Geography department
- The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Aeolian sand transport over a flat sediment surface by Leo C. van Rijn
- Sand Dune Processes and Management for Flood and Coastal Defence
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence, PR1: Site data summary sheets
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence Part 5: Dune management practices and options at selected dune systems in England and Wales
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence, Part 1: Project overview and recommendations
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence, Part 2: Sand dune processes and morphology
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence, Part 3: The geomorphological and management status of coastal dunes in England and Wales
- Sand dune processes and management for flood and coastal defence, Part 4: Techniques for sand dune management
- 2007 DEFRA sand dune processes and management (overview)
- English Nature: Spartina anglica: a review of its status, dynamics and management, 2004 (p40)
- DEFRA Information about biodiversity offsetting in pilot areas.
- ‘The Sands of Time at Hoylake and Meols’: website produced by a local concerned resident
- Scottish Natural Heritage Guide to managing coastal erosion in beach/dune systems 2.2. Short term dune evolution processes
- Long-term morphological change and its causes in the Mersey Estuary, NW England
- How will the Sefton Coast change over the next 100 years? – Professor Kenneth Pye
STATUTORY
- Dee Estuary SAC boundary map
- Mersey Narrows and North Wirral Foreshore pSPA
- Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands (RIS)
- 2010 North West Coastline Shoreline Management Plan
- 2010 North West Coastline Shoreline Management Plan: options for North Wirral Coast
- Dee Estuary Marine site: Natural England & the Countryside Council for Wales’ advice given under Regulation 33(2) of the Conservation (Natural Habitats &c.) Regulations 1994
- The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010
- 2012 Coastal Strategy; emphasis on coastal flood defences in response to rising sea levels
- Regional Representatives for the Irish Sea Conservation Zone Stakeholder Group
ARTICLES
- https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/SAMANCTA/EN/Safety/RS_EN.htm
- https://www.monsanto-ag.co.uk/roundup/roundup-amenity/aquatic-use/
- www.edie.net/news/3/Monsantos-weedkiller-deadly-to-frogs-and-tadpoles-alike/10390/
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8308903.stm
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/widely-used-herbicide-linked-to-cancer/
- https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/
- https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate/earlier-assessment_en
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00259-x