Lyme Regis

• Lyme Regis:

  •£43 million spent to protect coastline

  •Phases 1 and 2 - sea walls, creation of a wide beach, extension of rock armour

  •Phase 3 abandoned

  •Phase 4 - new sea wall, cliffs stabilised
• Lyme Regis:

  •Positive - tourism increase, now defences surviving, coastline protected

  •Negative - tourism brings congestion and litter, spoilt landscape, interfering with natural processes elsewhere
• Cliffs and landscape made of limestone and clay - at risk of erosion and landslides
• Houses, roads, farmland at risk from landslide and cliff collapse