A government agency has ordered Bristol residents to stop their attempts to prevent the coastal erosion of England’s oldest golf course . Players and locals had been attempting to slow down the rate of erosion by ‘potwalloping’, a practice by which local people are gathered twice a year to replace the stones which have been washed away.
The 144 year old Royal North Devon Golf Club situated near Westward Ho has seen parts of its course eroded away at by the nearby coast, with senior club members predicting that the course’s seventh and eighth holes could disappear as early as next year. Erosion had occurring at a rate of a metre a year, though severe storms earlier this year resulted in a 27 metre segment of the banks crumbling leaving the eighteenth hole precariously placed.
Natural England, the government agency who have ordered locals to stop potwalloping, have said that the coast must be allowed to erode in a managed realignment as continued human intervention will result in the sea’s natural pattern of interaction with the sand dunes being disrupted. Furthermore, the agency voiced concerns that diverting the tidal flow could result in a nearby landfill site containing asbestos being exposed to the powerful waves.
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