1. Cuckmere Haven Options Appraisal - Heritage Casper Johnson (ESCC)

2. Results of Phase 1 studies Heritage
Oxford Archaeology and Archaeology South-East:
desk-based research, field survey, geophysical survey & borehole survey.
Key findings:
Nationally Important Building Resource
Nationally Important Historic Landscape Resource
Nationally Important Below Ground Archaeological Resource

3. Policy Context
Scheduled Monuments - Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (as amended) (‘the 1979 Act’)
Listed Structures - Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
Designated and undesignated heritage assets (Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the historic environment. 2010)
South Downs National Park Authority area

4. Heritage Assets and Historic Landscape Character
Historic building resource:
e.g. military structures
Historic landscape resource:
e.g. medieval and later water meadows
Buried archaeological resource:
e.g. potential wharves and hulks

5. Heritage Character Areas
HCA 1 – Valley mouth and beach front
HCA 2 – Southern valley floor
HCA 3 – Central and Western valley floor
HCA 4 – Cuckmere River and N valley floor
HCA 5 – Valley sides and surrounding Downs

6. Heritage Character Areas

7. Options The Baseline – Do nothing or do minimum
Option A – Partial breach managed realignment
Option B – Full breach managed realignment
Option C – Engineered reactivation of meanders and creeks
Option D – Maintain the existing defences
Option E – Sustain the existing defences – raise banks as sea level rises
Option F – Sustain the existing defences – raise banks by 300mm
Assessment based on predictions by Capita over the short (0-20 yrs), medium (20-50 yrs) and long (50-100yrs) term

8. Effects of Options Engineering effects
Erosion effects (fluvial and/or tidal flow)
Inundation and/or burial by deposits
Vegetation changes
Effects on setting of heritage assets
Positive effects
Negative effects

9. Options Assessment Option 0-20 yrs 20-50 yrs 50 – 100 yrs Baseline
Neutral A
Negative B C D
Positive E F

10. Conclusions Baseline – Neutral Option A - Negative
Options B & C– Negative but with longer term benefits
Option D - Positive
Options E and F – Positive but with longer term shortcomings