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| Artist's impression of the proposed new lifeboat station as it will be seen from the promenade (Picture: RNLI) |
Although the £3-million project at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, is scheduled to start in April next year, piling will be postponed until May 1 by which time the knot, dunlin, curlew, sanderling and other species will have flown north to their breeding grounds.
This has been agreed following discussions between the RNLI, Natural England and North East Lincolnshire Council.
Works will then be put on hold again after August 31 when the birds will be returning.
A downside is that there is likely to be displacement for migrating common and Sandwich terns which often rest on this part of the beach.
The new station to be built on the beach will replace the existing one, which is on a public highway, and will have its own slipway for launch and recovery of the lifeboat.
Target date for completion is mid-2023.
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| Existing lifeboat station is on a public highway and blind bend |
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| Natural England has insisted that works must not be carried out during autumn and winter for fear of disturbing shorebirds such as these sanderling and dunlin |
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