Blog

Keep up to date on the project with our regular blog posts from across the PACCo team.

Saâne, sea and site seeing for the PACCo team all partner’s meeting by Becky Price

On Monday 4 September 2022, the English partners set sail to Normandy and the Saâne Valley to visit their French ...

Bridging the gap between intervention and restoration: the history of White Bridge and the Lower Otter Valley by Charlotte Hodgson, Estate Archivist

As the Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP) moves towards its final exciting stages before completion, involving the opening of the ...

The PACCo journey: reflections on a managed realignment and adaptation to climate change project by Sam Bridgewater

This summer, after 15 years of planning and an immense collective effort, a breach will be made in a flood ...

Valuing the benefits of managed realignment and estuary restoration: Using a natural capital approach

This blog post by Sam Bridgewater gives some background to the natural capital valuation approaches used in PACCo to assess ...

Saâne Valley site visit for the Clinton Devon Estates PACCo team

On Wednesday 8th June, seven members of the Estate team boarded the Seven Sisters ferry at Newhaven, destination Dieppe. The ...

Monitoring Fish Populations on the lower Otter Estuary

By Kendal Archer On 28th to 30th September last year (2021), the PACCo team welcomed national expert in marine and ...

Basse Saâne 2050: three projects to prepare the future

The territorial project for the lower Saâne valley now has a generic name, Basse Saâne 2050, and the three main ...

Archaeological finds in the Lower Otter

By Greg Chuter, Senior Archaeologist, Environment Agency Archaeological investigations as part of the Lower Otter Restoration Project have identified interesting ...

A glimpse of the future: Our visit to WWT Steart Marshes

By Kim Strawbridge, East Devon Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust  June 2021  There is no doubt that the project to reconnect ...

Carbon: Restoring the balance

One of the key aims of the PACCo project is to adapt early to climate change. There are many ways ...

Article on the Saâne Territorial Project and on PACCo

The Saâne Territorial Project was launched a few years ago following significant flooding problems and a high threat of marine ...

The Coastal Climate Change Challenge

It’s a mouthful isn’t it? But the impact of climate change on our coasts is one of the biggest challenges ...