East Devon District Council (EDDC) will undertake £1 million worth of coast protection work along the Exmouth seafront.

The council has issued a public notice stating the significant intervention is to shield residential properties and commercial properties from the threat of coastal erosion.

The operation, focused around Exmouth coastal frontage from the Stewart Lines/Exe Fishing Building in the West to Sideshore at the East, involves an emergency replacement of a failed masonry seawall with a permanent sheet pile wall.

The council said the works will also include removing parts of the collapsed stone wall and driving sheet piles into the existing footprint of the vertical wall, all executed with a landward-side piling rig.

Although the newly installed wall will initially be left unclad, the council plans to add cladding at a later stage.

Council officials have made arrangements for the public to scrutinise details of the proposed work.

Copies of the plans will be available for inspection at East Devon District Council, Blackdown House, Honiton and at Exmouth Town Hall between 9am to 1pm, Monday to Thursday.

The council said any objections to the proposal must be submitted no later than March 20.

These objections must be served on the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and on East Devon District Council.

Any objections should include a clear statement of reasons and be delivered either by post or by email to the Chief Executive of East Devon District Council.

Notices to be posted may be addressed to the Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Flood Management, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR and to the Chief Executive at East Devon District Council, Blackdown House, Border Road, Heathpark Industrial Estate, Honiton, EX14 1EJ (email: Legal@eastdevon.gov.uk).