These large mounds of beach material lying infront the Honeycombe Chine development will be used to fill the 55 ‘geotextile bags’ that make up the surf reef. After refinement, the sand will then be pumped using piping from the beach to the reef construction site which is 260 metres offshore.

Check out this short video interview with Dr Shaw Mead, featured on BBC South Today, or the following video on BBC News.

If you picked up the Bournemouth Echo today, you may have already read about plans to twin Boscombe with Santa Monica in the USA.

Boscombe Area Forum is writing to civic chiefs in the Californian resort to suggest twinning the two communities. This has received backing from local councillors who claim that Santa Monica’s regeneration has much in common with Boscombe’s regeneration and developments like the Boscombe Spa Village Project.

Area Forum business portfolio holder Peter Castle says:

I have been to Santa Monica and it has become a mini Silicon Valley. Like Boscombe, it is very cosmopolitan and has got a lot of artists. Boscombe has the new surf reef and a lot of opportunities for investment.

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This month, construction begins on the £1.4m artificial surf reef in Bournemouth. It is expected to attract up to 10,000 surfers a year. But how do you go about constructing an artificial surf reef?

Read the full story, with video, on the BBC News website.

A peek under the computer-generated sea reveals how Europe’s first artificial surf reef will be constructed.

The geo-textile bags and webbing base for the Boscombe reef are on their way from Australia and New Zealand and are expected to arrive in the UK at the end of June.

Construction on the reef can then start in the middle of July, with a completion date of the end of October.

For more information, read today’s article in the Bournemouth Echo

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Boscombe beach-goers will soon be able to store their deckchairs in the best beach huts in the world.

That’s the bold claim made by tourism chiefs as they unveiled artist’s impressions of what the hip new huts or “surf pods” will look like.

For more information, read today’s article in the Bournemouth Echo

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