An Unmissable Opportunity
The Isle of Wight is a stunning island off the south coast of England with a fantastic resource for physical and mental health & wellbeing: the Sea!
Our vision is for the island to have a tidal sea pool: an accessible, sheltered, salt water gem that can enable everybody to enjoy ” blue” health whatever the season.
Sea Pools around the world are a huge draw and are frequently rated as the number one tourist attraction for the areas where they are located.
Our proposal to build a tidal pool within and part of the sea defences offers a unique opportunity to show how coastal infrastructure can have multiple functions – sea defence, recreation, health, education, wildlife, tourism and potentially, regeneration.
Artwork by Julie Roberts
Concept Design by Studio Octopi
Our Plan
We are consulting closely with the Isle of Wight Council and the Environment Agency on how our innovatory scheme could be built into the sea defences at Yaverland on the east coast of the Island.
The second exciting and crucial stage of our development has now begun.
Over the next two years the process demands the completion of various high level technical and environmental investigations, with the development of a detailed design which will embrace the pool structure, accessibility features and facilities on both the beach and the promenade. Planning approval and sourcing of the funds required to enable construction and integration into the sea defences refurbishment will also be sourced.
Could you help us achieve this? Whatever support you can offer would make a huge difference.
Dive in and see how you can help!
Run by Volunteers
Our volunteers are the life-blood of the Sea Pool project. Put simply, we wouldn’t be where we are now without the legion of supporters and volunteers involved in the project – and we know that we won’t be able to bring this project to its full potential without their continued support.
Volunteers are involved in every aspect of the project through their fantastic
skills and experience and we need more especially in planning, media,
fundraising, finance, legal, – each and every small or large factor involved in
bringing together a project of this size!
Feeling inspired? Why not see how you can be involved?
We’d love to hear from you.
