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Joining hands
When the weather is good, as many as 4,000 visitors a day have been known to descend on Sea Palling, a tiny village on the north Norfolk coast with a resident population of only 550. They come for the beach and the salt-water lagoons that have formed behind the nine enormous granite reefs built off-shore almost ten years ago, as part of a multi-million pound beach improvement and coastal protection scheme funded by the Environment Agency. The hinterland is so low-lying that if the sea broke through here, vast acres would be flooded. Despite this massive investment, the village of Sea Palling has few public amenities, and the additional traffic generated by the hordes of visitors made the need for a safe place for young children to play of paramount importance. The Green Pennant award-winning Sea Palling and Waxham Doorstep Green on Clink Lane is the result of hard work by a group of mothers who decided to create a play area for their young childre Discuss this article
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