After years of increased rainfall and repeated storms, it has become necessary to protect our 3rd/12th green and the public path that runs around it. We can no longer use wire gabions filled with rocks, as the Environment Agency now insist on natural solutions.

Willow spiling is a soft engineering technique most commonly used for combating riverbank erosion and creating revetments. Spiling is an old process that has been used for centuries to stabilise and control watercourses and to create docks, landings and moorings. There is archaeological evidence of spiling on the banks of the river Thames in London dating back to Roman times. This practise is undergoing a huge revival as hard engineering solutions are not only considered to be out-of-place in many situations from a visual and environmental point of view but as it becomes obvious the concrete type methods can only be considered temporary and carry the risk of pollution.