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Using the Slapton Sands gravel barrier system, in Devon, as a case study, this article argues that repeated damage to the village of Torcross and the A379 road section that runs along the barrier illustrates a broader national cycle of escalating coastal risk despite decades of scientific understanding and strategic planning through Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs). Although none of the winter 2026 storms were individually extreme, their rapid succession, sequencing, and coincidence with spring tides caused substantial erosion, infrastructure collapse, and property damage, highlighting the cumulative threat of compound events. The case study exemplifies how defended coastlines and transport corridors can function as \u201csingle points of failure,\u201d where disruption produces cascading social and economic consequences. While SMPs acknowledge the eventual need for \u201cManaged Realignment,\u201d implementation remains slow, politically contentious, and operationally vague, with policy often defaulting to short-term \u201cHold the Line\u201d responses. This creates an adaptation deficit between national ambitions for resilience and practical action on the ground. We emphasise that transformational adaptation \u2013 including managed realignment, infrastructure relocation and community transition \u2013 requires coordinated national leadership, statutory support, a consistent approach and socially just frameworks that prioritise participation and fairness. Current local and national governance structures remain insufficient to meet the pace and scale of climate-driven coastal change. Torcross, like many vulnerable coastal communities, serves as an early warning of broader systemic failure: sea-level rise and intensifying coastal hazards will increasingly force the UK to confront difficult choices about protection, retreat and relocation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,18]],"date-time":"2026-06-18T07:43:07Z","timestamp":1781768587000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Coastal canaries"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6079-7611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gerd","family":"Masselink","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/008n7pv89","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Plymouth"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2404-9661","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eli D.","family":"Lazarus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/01ryk1543","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Southampton"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ian","family":"Townend","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/01ryk1543","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Southampton"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,18]]},"container-title":["Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S2754720526100389","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,30]],"date-time":"2026-07-30T09:09:34Z","timestamp":1785402574000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S2754720526100389\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"references-count":0,"alternative-id":["S2754720526100389"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/cft.2026.10038","relation":{"has-review":[{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr7","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr6","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr1","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr3","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr2","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr5","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.1017\/cft.2026.10038.pr4","asserted-by":"object"}]},"ISSN":["2754-7205"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2754-7205","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"assertion":[{"value":"\u00a9 The Author(s), 2026. 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