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<p>Local Authorities have direct responsibility to produce shoreline management plans
covering the entire coast of England. These plans provide a long term, sustainable
policy framework for local authorities, to manage the risk of coastal change over
the next 100 years.</p><p> </p><p>Government is working closely with coastal authorities
on a review of shoreline management plans to ensure they are up to date and using
the best evidence. Schemes within the current capital investment programme to 2021
benefit from £1.2 billion of investment in coastal erosion and sea flooding projects
which will better protect over 170,000 properties.</p><p> </p>
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