Areas of coast have been excluded from the SSSI designation, yet there are few justifications for doing so as the inherent interests and ecological, landscape and hydrogeological functions are not discontinuous and don't stop e.g. in Dunbar or along the golf course. Protection would include the ability to control and at times limit such potentially damaging operations and practices, such as seaweed removal, groyne repairs and the creation of barriers, or the strengthening of the coastal strip, which in many places we should be considering for managed retreat, i.e should be allowed to rewild and naturalise.
Flooding & Coastal Adaption
