“…But coastal spaces in particular, which are increasingly becoming recognised for their potential well‐being benefits (Bell et al, 2015; Bell et al, 2020; Wheeler et al, 2012), are undergoing rapid and sustained change as coastal populations continue to grow (Barragán & de Andrés, 2015; Neumann et al, 2015), and the subsequent proliferation of urban coastal structures places them in greater intersection with local communities and tourists (Evans et al, 2019). This growth of fringing coastal infrastructure and hard engineering can substantially alter the visual properties of coastal vistas at both the landscape scale and more intimate close‐up scales (Burak et al, 2004; Morgan, 1999b) through changes in shoreline structural complexity (Lawrence et al, 2021), with these simplified environments typically hosting depauperate ecological communities (Bulleri & Chapman, 2004; McKinney, 2006; Momota & Hosokawa, 2021). This has led to increasing calls to develop ecologically sensitive designs or management scenarios to retrofit coastal infrastructure, embracing varied naturalistic features to provide suitable habitat to support natural, biodiverse ecological communities (Evans et al, 2019; Firth, Schofield, et al, 2014; Firth et al, 2016).…”