Welcome to the Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association web page
The Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association looks after the interests of beach hut owners in Clacton and Holland. We hold two meetings for all members per year and the committee meets monthly to deal with ongoing issues. Membership is £5 per annum per hut. We are members of the Tendring Beach Hut Owners Forum where we meet with the Associations from other resorts in Tendring to discuss matters of common interest.
Committee members are:
Linda Jacobs (Chairman) Tel: 01255 426115
Pat Clarke (Secretary) Tel: 01255 470207
Doris Bailey (Treasurer) Tel: 01255 812058
Susan Ashman (Damage Control Officer) 07946561189
If any members spot any damage to any of the huts could you please phone Susan Ashman on 07946561189 who will notify the hut owner.
Annual General Meeting 2011
The 2011 Annual General Meeting will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday 14 May at Holland Public Hall. This will be a very important meeting as we will be discussing the rent increases
£1 MILLION SEA DEFENCE SCHEME COMPLETED AT HOLLAND-ON-SEA
A new £1.1 million scheme to strengthen crumbling sea walls at Holland-on-Sea has been completed.
It takes the total spend on a 220 metre stretch of the coastline in the area to more than £2 million over the past 20 months in a bid to protect it from attack from waves.
Tendring District Council (TDC)’s contractors J Breheny began work in the vicinity of York Road back in September.
Now the finishing touches are being made to the 68 metre stretch of the coastline and the Lower Promenade has been reopened to pedestrians well in time for the main summer season.
The same contractors carried out a successful £1.2 million project on a 150 metre length of promenade less than a mile away in the Hazlemere Road area which began in September 2008 and was finished last year.
All the funding was provided by the Environment Agency following successful bids by TDC.
The same processes were used in both jobs and involved replacing the sea wall with a new concrete stepped defence to break down the wave action and reduce erosion.
John Ryan, Head of Technical and Procurement Services at TDC, said it was vital that the work was carried out to protect the sea wall at Holland-on-Sea.
“There has been a tremendous loss of beach material in the area over the past two years which has left our defences in serious danger of collapse in that particular location,” he said.
“We are grateful for the funding from the Environment Agency to proceed with both these schemes and the work continues with two other initiatives in the pipeline.”
These are a 400 metre length from Cliff Road to York Road and a 150 metre section at Holland Haven, next to Gunfleet Boating Club.
The contractors used the Hazlemere Road car park as their compound for both the latest schemes to be finished.
That will be totally resurfaced by the end of the week as part of the contract and will be marked out again. A section of the site will be for cars and another area for coaches during the main peak season.
A ramp which was the access for contractor’s vehicles during the projects has also been resurfaced along with the Lower Promenade itself.
Work has been undertaken at the same time to provide proper disabled access to the Flag Kiosk Café.
A number of dangerous piles which have been left in the beach from abandoned groynes have also been removed under the contract.
Ivan Henderson said,"This is another example of government funding being put to good use locally. I worked very closely with ministers regarding Holland on Sea's coastal defences while I was the local MP and have acted as a go between for TDC in recent years. This is very good news."