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The peninsula itself has its own specially adapted access. Due to the Westward movement of the landscape, the access road requires constant realignment or it would simply fall into the sea within a decade of being laid upon the spit. Earlier in the 20th century a concrete road was laid to the tip of Spurn Head. However after time the eastern side erosion and western side deposition moved the road slowly into the sea, where it was simply a matter of time before it crumbled onto the beach and was washed away. A responsive attitude was taken on board by the occupants of the spit, much in the same way that I have tried to learn from this attitude in my Soft Ecology thesis. The new road is composed of Armourflex pads that are flexible, tied together with fibre cables, this allows them to bend and flex in flood conditions and best of all it can be picked up with simple equipment and realigned over time to adapt to the changing landscape. This maintains access along the spit to my proposed platforms over the future decades of movement.
The destruction of the old road by the onset of the sea in comparision to the adaptability of the new armourflex road.
The New Road
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