Candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSAC) - summary

There are seven sites in Great Britain with coastal vegetated shingle interest of significance at a European level. The seven sites are:

1. Chesil Beach (part of the Chesil and the Fleet CSAC);
2. Dungeness cSAC (part of the Dungeness to Pett Levels CHaMP);
3. Orfordness - Shingle Street cSAC (part of the Suffolk Coasts and Estuaries CHaMP);
4. Blakeney Spit (part of the North Norfolk cSAC; CHaMP);
5. Lower River Spey - Spey Bay cSAC;
6. Culbin Bar cSAC;
7. Walney Island part of the Morecambe Bay cSAC.

Minsmere to Walberswick on the Suffolk Coast (part of the Suffolk Coast and Estuaries CHaMP) as has important shingle communities.