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An area of coastline the size of Manchester has become built up in the past 50 years, a mapping project across England, Wales and Northern Ireland has shown.
But the new survey for the National Trust, updating coastal mapping first carried out for the organisation half a century ago, has revealed that three-quarters of the countries’ coasts are still undeveloped.
And 94 per cent of the 3,342 miles of coastline considered to be “pristine” in the original survey in 1965 is now protected, as it is either owned by the National Trust or is designated as an important natural area in the planning system.
