§ Mr. LIVINGSTONEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the hardship caused to the inhabitants of Atwick, on the Yorkshire coast, by an order from his department forbidding them to cart away shingle from the shore; and whether he will give the reason why this facility has been taken from them?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERRemoval of materials at Atwick was stopped as the result of a public local inquiry by the Board of Trade held no the 7th January, 1925, at which all bodies and persons interested were invited to express their views. The reason for the stoppage of removals was that the Board of Trade were advised that they would be likely to lead to serious erosion of the coast in the vicinity, and, in fact, the inquiry 1669W was held as the result of complaints which were received that the removal was causing erosion. It was realised that the stoppage might cause hardship to those who derived their main source of livelihood from removing materials, and in order to give these men a chance of finding other employment, the Board of Trade agreed to allow a limited quantity of material to be removed from below high water mark at Atwick up to the 31st December, 1925. Subsequently, the Board made a further concession in that they agreed to the removal of a limited quantity of material from the foreshore between the southern boundary of the Borough of Bridlington and the Barmston Main Drain, these removals being regulated by the Bridlington Rural District Council under the terms of a lease granted to them by the Board of Trade. No removals, the Board are advised, should be permitted south of the Barmston Main Drain.