2. Legislative basis for marine planning and plans
MCAA
•Marine and Coastal Access Act provides legislative basis for a marine planning system
MPS
•Marine Policy Statement (SoS) is the framework for marine plans and taking decisions
Marine Plans
•Marine Plans (MMO) will translate the MPS into detailed policy and spatial guidance for each Marine Plan area to guide and direct decision-making ( ‘plan-led’ management including licensing)
3. Where and when
Areas/Boundaries
•11 plans
•Limit of tidal influence to ‘UK limit’ (REZ/EEZ)
•Inshore out to 12nm, Offshore >12nm Overall timetable
•Complete first cycle by 2021
•Rolling programme, assumed two at a time
•Estimate 2 – 2.5 years for each plan with overlap
•Evaluate ≤ 3-6 years Review?
4. Setting a national context
•Strategic Scoping Report
–Understanding the uneven distribution of activities and resources
–Relative importance of activities and resources in each plan area
5. East Marine Plan Areas April 2011 to early 2014
•Main issues include – busy and busier, offshore wind energy, conservation, aggregates, tourism and recreation, ports and shipping, fishing etc.
•Two plans delivered through one process
•First plans – ‘developing whilst doing’
Flamborough Head to Felixstowe =
area of 58,700km2
Equivalent to
- Dutch marine waters
- 40% England land area
6. ... and that’s not all!
South Marine Plan Areas
c.1000km of coastline from river Dart in Devon to Folkestone in Kent taking in c.20,000sq km of sea
Busy with a number of important sectors (e.g. significant shell fisheries, major ports and a high shipping density, tourism and recreation), significant environmental interests (e.g. high proportion of MPAs) and a large coastal fringe population
7.
8. SPP and stakeholder engagement
Representation period on draft plan
Independent investigation
Plan adopted and published
Implement, monitor and review
Identifying issues
Gathering evidence
Vision and objectives
Options development
Plan policy development
Plan area selection decision
Review plan proposals
South
East
Planning Progress
EVIDENCE
9. Statement of Public Participation (SPP)
•Statutory requirement of the planning process
•Informs people of how and when they can be involved
•Signed off by Secretary of State, Defra
•Indicates formal start of planning process
•Stakeholders inform content of SPP
•Matters to be included in marine plans
12. Stakeholder engagement in the East
•Five series of stakeholder workshops attended by over 300 people
•23 public drop-in sessions across the East for over 700 people
•Two reporting area and two decision-makers workshops
•~400 one-to-one meetings with marine sector reps, such as, offshore wind, fishing, recreation, aggregates, cabling, MPs etc
•Specific groups or fora, e.g. Local Authority elected members, LGA SIG, IFCA, etc
•Local liaison officers based in Lowestoft and Grimsby met with hundreds of local stakeholders, attending meetings and events
•International workshops with France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Wales, European Commission
•Informal consultations on plan stages - more than 2,000 comments from 70 different organisations in 2012
•106 responses, over 2000 comments via CONNECT, email
13. Strategy Document: Vision, Objectives, Policies and Maps
Implementation and Monitoring Plan
Marine Policy Statement
Sustainability Appraisal
(+ HRA)
Statement of Public Participation
Monitoring Reports
National
Plan Area
Guidance
Impact
Assessment
Marine Planning Components - Outputs
14. What do the East plans look like?
Executive summary
Chapter 1. Background
Chapter 2. Vision and objectives
Chapter 3. Policies – 38 altogether
-Objectives/thematic – 5 policy areas
-Sectoral – 12 policy areas Chapter 4. implementation, monitoring, review and evidence Plan policies:
i.general decision-making framework set out for public authorities ii. spatial or temporal constraints on activities iii. methodological requirements to be considered in determination of a proposal.
15. AGG1: Proposals in areas where a licence for extraction of aggregates has been granted or formally applied for should not be authorised unless there are exceptional circumstances.
AGG2: Proposals within an area subject to an Exploration and Option Agreement with The Crown Estate74 should not be supported unless it is demonstrated that the other development or activity is compatible with aggregate extraction or there are exceptional circumstances.
AGG3: Within defined areas of high potential aggregate resource, proposals should demonstrate in order of preference
a) that they will not, prevent aggregate extraction
b) how, if there are adverse impacts on aggregate extraction, they will minimise these
c) how, if the adverse impacts cannot be minimised, they will be mitigated
d) the case for proceeding with the application if it is not possible to minimise or mitigate the adverse impacts
16. What have we learned from the East?
•Great Expectations
•Local Hero
•LA Story
•Our House
•Meetings B***** Meetings
•Lea(d) on me.
•A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum
•Administration is not a dirty word
•Time is (not) on my side
•YOU’D BETTER, YOU’D BETTER, YOU BET
