Useful links & info

Find out the risk of coastal erosion for an area in England.

https://www.gov.uk/check-coastal-erosion-management-in-your-area

Reports to include additional engagement feedback and will be finalised after Engagement Round 2

DRAFT Coastal Processes Report (March 2025)

DRAFT Defence Condition Assessment Report (March 2025)

DRAFT Baseline Summary and Option Development Unit Report (March 2025)

DRAFT Baseline Economic Assessment Report (March 2025)

This booklet provides information about: 

• How Chesil Beach and the Fleet Lagoon formed and how it has changed over the last 100 years 
• Why coastal defences were built at Chiswell and how they work 
• The causes and impacts of the worst storms in a generation that occurred over the winter 2013 / 14 
• Update of storm events after 2014 
• What will happen in the future?

Storms and coastal defences at Chiswell 

The SMP2 comprises a number of volumes of information arranged as chapters and appendices with supporting information including a strategic environmental assessment. 

SDADCAG SMP2 - Southwest Coastal Monitoring

The focus of this paper is the impacts of a series of large storm events over the winter of 2013/2014 on the beach, coastal defences and community of Portland at the south-eastern end of Chesil Beach. The impacts of this series of storms is set in the context of the long history of flooding, erosion and landslides that have led to the development of a unique system of coastal defences in this location. 

Chesil Beach at Portland, Dorset: Recovering from the winter 2013/14 storms