Founded in 2012, Coastal Partners is a partnership between four councils who manage 162km of Hampshire’s coastline. The highly skilled team of coastal engineers and officers lead on coastal issues, such as managing flooding and erosion risk, plan design and manage construction of new coastal defence schemes and inspect, manage and maintain existing coastal assets whilst planning for the future. It has evolved its expertise to support and enhance: community resilience, habitat and environmental issues, research, ecology, data analysis, geomatics, environmental protection and funding skills, in addition to its core coastal engineering services. Advice is available on project strategy, planning, design, monitoring, implementation and maintenance and stretches beyond coastlines to on land, highways and flood risk areas.

Coastal Partners vision is to: Manage coastlines, improve community resilience and enhance the natural environment.