'UK's longest' glass flood wall installed

East Riding of Yorkshire Council said "the UK's longest glass flood wall" raised the existing defence level to stand 6.8m above sea level

A glass panelled flood wall, said to be the longest of its kind in Britain, has been installed near Hull.

The 520 metre-long (1,700ft) barrier has been built in Paull, East Yorkshire.

The £835,000 structure will protect 14,000 homes in the Holderness area.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council said "the UK's longest glass flood wall" added 1.1m (3ft) in height to the existing defence level, which now stands at 6.8m (22ft) above the sea.

The glass panels feature a "special grid" of dots designed to deter birds flying into the wall.

Rigorous testing of the aluminium-framed wall included "dropping a 4.1kg steel ball nine times from a height of nine metres", the council said.

The glass panels feature a grid of dots to deter birds from flying into them

Council leader Stephen Parnaby said: "We could have raised the concrete wall further to help manage the flood risk but we wanted to do something more sympathetic along a river front which is popular with visitors."

The glass and aluminium-framed wall, which took three months to build, has been funded via government grants.

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Hundreds of properties were flooded in 2013 after a combination of high tides and strong winds caused a tidal surge, that breached flood defences along the east coast on 5 December.

In 2007, heavy rainfall caused Hull and the surrounding area to flood with thousands of properties damaged as a result.