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Tag: Medmerry

Medmerry managed realignment officially opened

Nov 2013Dec 2025 ~ SPS Admin

One of the most ambitious managed realignment schemes on the South Coast opened today  Medmerry is a large tract of land that has been modified to become a wetland nature reserve.  Built by the Environment Agency at a cost of £28 million, it fulfills a number of functions including  some flood defence relief to the … Continue reading Medmerry managed realignment officially opened

Baltic Klipper container spill raises wider concerns

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Dec 2025Mar 2026

Southampton / New Forest Waterside development proposals

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Dec 2025Dec 2025

The Fawley EDF Green Hydrogen proposal

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Dec 2025Jan 2026

Solent Gateway 2

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Dec 2025Dec 2025

CSO sewage discharges into the Solent

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Oct 2025Oct 2025

SPS parliamentary correspondence on CSO sewage spills into the Solent

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Jun 2025Jun 2025

Hurst Spit to Lymington Strategy

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Jan 2025Jan 2025

Challenges facing the Solent in 2025

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Dec 2024

The challenges facing the Solent’s water companies

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Dec 2024Dec 2024

Double blast in Southern Water’s decaying underground ‘minefield’

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Dec 2024Dec 2024

SPS challenges Southern Water’s WRMP* options and NSIP* intentions

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Dec 2024Jun 2025

Fact-checking Southern Water’s Sandown ‘Toilet to Tap’ proposal

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Nov 2024

ExxonMobil – End of Round One?

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Oct 2024Dec 2025

‘Solent CO2 Pipeline’ consultation – the SPS response

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Oct 2024Oct 2024

The Solent Protection Society, formed in 1956,  is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registration number 1154317.

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“The Solent Protection Society seeks to ensure the ecological and environmental well being and wise management of the wider Solent area, its natural beauty and amenities, so that these may continue to be enjoyed by present and future generations. The wider Solent area, including harbours, foreshores and surrounding lands, extends from Selsey Bill in the east to the Needles channel in the west.”

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