The Environment Agency has launched a tender process for a framework to deliver its routine and ad-hoc beach maintenance works across all coastal frontages in England that it is responsible for.

Balfour Beatty is using 70,000t of aggregate to build a £25m coastal defence along the shorelines of Cromer and Mundesley in Norfolk.

Jones Bros has relocated an entire shore-sized habitat of honeycomb reef worm as part of a coastal defence project in Wales.

BAM has kicked off a £34.7m cliff resilience project for Network Rail to protect a South West railway line in Devon.

Kier has built a coastal defence in Blue Anchor beach, Somerset, to protect the cliffs, walls and a nearby road from continued erosion.