This website is a companion site for the facebook group Hoylake Beach – The Evidence.

Here we aim to structure the information in a more accessible way than Facebook allows.

If you wish to discuss these topics, which we encourage, then there should be links to the relevant pages within our Facebook group.

The content is mainly organised into 4 Guides.

• Definition of Hoylake Beach
• Groundwater vs Drains
• Wind direction and Dune formation
• Library and Index
• The Drain problem
• Could Hoylake end up like Parkgate
• Dune or Saltmarsh – – changes in plant populations at Hoylake
• Who is the decision maker when it comes to managing the beach?
• Natural England’s Role: Do they have enforcement powers?
• Will mechanical raking or digging stop Spartina from spreading?
• Saltmarsh or Dunes?
• Where has accretion occured – and how much sand has been added
• How wind moves sand and why Hoylake is in trouble
• Simple pictorial saltation and sand inundation
• More on saltation and slipways
• Changes in beach profile and the demise of the Hoyle Lake
• Time-lapse of accretion at Hoylake
• Is the beach safe beyond the grass [Kings Gap to the Lifeboat Station]
• Are there any other advantages to having vegetation on the beach?
• Is leaving the beach to nature attracting more rats?
• The effect on wading birds of beach grasses
• What effect will vegetation have on the amenity value of the beach
• What new plant species are arriving?

• Introduction and documents
• Risk 1 – Sand innundation incidents in Liverpool Bay
• Risk 1. Disruptive level of sand deposited by aeolian processes onto North Parade
• Risk 4,6,9 Storm Surges
• Risk 5 & 8 Sand acts as a resevoir for enterococci
• Risk 11. Rats on the beach
• Risk 17 Perception of poor climate change outcomes for Spartina

• American Golden PLover on Hoylake Beach
• Wheatears on passage feeding on the green beach
• Linnets making the most of the new habitat

• What’s the current and future risk of Mosquitoes on Hoylake beach?