The Irish Sea is characterised by a heterogenous seabed, where different sediment types vary over short spaces in adjacent regions. This means it is also characterised by various environments that are home to different fauna and flora, which can easily be affected by changes to the seabed composition. Ocean currents and waves both induce stress over the seabed in shelf and shallow water regions. There are complex feedback interactions between these two components, which are expected to be affected by future climate change and sea level rise (SLR). Future changes to ocean, waves and their interaction may therefor affect the bed-stress, changing the present seabed structure and related environments. Recent coupled model developments now allow us to better reproduce these interactions though numerical simulation; In this work, we implement a NEMO-WW3 coupled model at 1.5km resolution over the whole northwestern European shelf. For the first time, we can demonstrate the impact of SLR over the bed stress, considering only barotropic factors. Here we show the latest model results and discuss implications for seabed habitats.