Climate Change Impacts
Summary of Impacts:
- Increased overtopping of coastal defences, risk of breaches and flooding
- A strong presumption against development in flood risk areas
- Saline intrusion of groundwater
- Loss and fragmentation of habitats and species from erosion, sea level rise and severe weather events
- Increased opportunities for water-based outdoor leisure pursuits
- Safety implications for leisure and commercial craft from severe weather conditions
- Loss of coastal roads and paths
- Need to move or adapt coastal infrastructure and the lack of potential new sites
- Physical process changes, e.g. sediment budgets, local currents, wave height may change deposition and erosion patterns
- Increased insurance costs to property to cover more severe weather conditions
