It is owned by East Suffolk Council and managed by the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[1][2] It is in the Leiston - Aldeburgh Site of Special Scientific Interest[3] and Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[1] The site covers the beach north of Aldeburgh and an area of lagoons and reedbeds which are protected as nature reserves.

[1] It has a sculpture called Scallop by Maggi Hambling, designed as a tribute to Benjamin Britten.

[4] The beach is open to the public, but not the lagoons and reedbeds.