Fort Warden, Isle of Wight

Client: Roseberry homes

We were appointed to investigate the stability of the site of a former holiday camp that was, in Victorian times, the location of a gun battery. A redevelopment project required the stripping of the newer structures from the sunken gun batteries and the construction of new residential blocks above the batteries.

In combination with historical maps, aerial photographic records, geomorphological mapping and borehole investigation, Coastal Behaviour Units were developed in accordance with recent DEFRA guidance and predictions made of stability and cliff top retreat.

Limited cliff management was recommended together with the construction of a buried pile wall on critical sections of the cliff top.