MMO Marine Planning Update - From the East Inshore and Offshore Plan Areas Russell Gadbury

MMO Marine
Planning Update
From the East Inshore and
   Offshore Plan Areas
                Russell Gadbury
                 Marine Planning
                    Manager

Outline
• Overview: England - level, timetable, plan areas

• Progress and outputs
   – Timetable
   – Stakeholder engagement and co-operation
   – Policy and objectives (national, sub-national)
   – Evidence, analysis, research
   – Sustainability Appraisal

• Update of resources and support for Coastal Partnerships

• Next steps/activities

The requirement for marine planning

• Aim: contribute to and help deliver sustainable
  development
• Marine & Coastal Access Act provides legislative basis for
  a marine planning system
• Marine Policy Statement (MPS) will be the overarching
  policy framework for the UK marine area
• Marine Plans will translate the MPS into detailed policy
  and spatial guidance for each Marine Plan area (MMO)
• A description of the marine planning system for England
  (Defra)

National level
Overall timetable
•   Currently two at a time every 2
    years, i.e. complete by 2021
•   Review spring 2012

National activity
•   Govt, Stakeholders
•   Evidence and Analysis

Other ‘Future’ plan areas
•   Engagement
•   Projects, learning, issues etc

East plan areas
58,700 km2

Two plans but one process

Deliver April 2013
•   Evidence Nov 2011
•   Issues Jan 2012
•   Objectives Mar 2012
•   Options start Mar 2012

Note other timelines, eg MCZs,
  R3 wind

East Inshore and Offshore Plan Areas Key Facts

• 37% of oil and gas production areas.
• 58% SAC and 42% SPA by area.
• 24% of existing wind farms, 70% of those planned and
  89% of Round 3 search areas.
• 22% of ports including the busiest port of Immingham
  on the Humber.
• 68% of aggregate dredging areas and a significant
  proportion of future search areas.

Humber Estuary
• Wildlife habitat is an important feature
• Renewable energy developments important to the area:
  Port development, Green Port Hull, Queen Elizabeth
  Dock
• Humber Enterprise Zone & North Killingholme Marine
  Energy Park, Project Neptune
• Tourism: Diversification, parasailing, bird watching,
  diving

•   Engagement: Hull CC, East Riding Council, NEIFCA,EIFCA, Smart
    Wind, Forewind, NFFO, NUTFA, WCL etc

Stakeholder Engagement
• Statements of Public Participation (SPP)
     informs people of how and when they can become
     involved
     published April 2011
     signed off by Government (Secretary of State, Defra)

• Local stakeholder engagement
     Individual interests and groups
     Work with existing partnerships, links to other
     projects (MCZs,R3)
     Range of meetings, workshops, events + Liaison
     officers
     Contacts, evidence, issues, aspirations etc

Stakeholder engagement – plan areas

“Where we need to be” – policy & objectives
 National (‘top down’)
 • Marine Policy Statement
       Vision ‘clean, healthy, safe, productive and
       biologically diverse oceans and seas’
       Goals, objectives, policies: draw out in a plan area
       context
 • Other, e.g. National Policy Statements

 Sub-national (‘integration’)
 • Terrestrial plans (LDFs)
 • RBMPs, SMPs, AONBs etc
 • Vision, objectives, policies etc

Marine - terrestrial planning links
Need
• “take all reasonable steps” to ensure
  compatible with adjacent Planning Act plan
• Assess marine relevant policies in LDFs

Approach
• Worked with Local Authorities to develop
• Undertook review of all 26 LDFs
• Each LA commenting

Results
• Understanding across different LA areas
• Summary of implications for marine
  planning and vice-versa

Evidence and analysis
• National: Strategic Scoping Report
   – Not a planning or policy document
   – The ‘big picture’ to set plan area in context
   – Includes analysis of potential future opportunities
• East inshore and East offshore data & information
   – Substantial data collation and presentation
   – Call for evidence from stakeholders and data gap filling
   – Web portal
• Research
   – various
   – Socio-economic study

Marine Planning Portal

Online tool for stakeholders
• View existing data from the
  evidence base
• Comment on MMO data
• Suggest a new dataset
Data being added and
  revised
Further development
• Spring 2012 onward
• View/interrogate plan
  options
                                http://planningportal.marinemanagement.org.uk

Research: socio-economic study
• Help to understand the impact of marine planning on
  the socio-economics of coastal communities

• Identify different types of coastal community around
  England and, in detail, the plan area

• National report; EoE report (information for each LA)

• Inform both marine AND terrestrial
  planning

Sustainability Appraisals
• Legislative requirement set out in M&CAA
• Increasingly used in England, particularly terrestrial planning

• Purpose
  - a process to provide independent check of the development of the plan
  - assess impacts of plan options on social, economic and
   environmental objectives
  - incorporates Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats
   Regulations Assessment

• Progress
  - started on ‘day 1’ of plan making with contractors appointed
  - Refining approach, evidence gathering and interpretation
  - Advisory Group established

Summary of progress

• Statements of Public Participation published
• Stakeholder engagement: from individual meetings to
  workshops
• Developing co-operation and understanding of
  existing plans, e.g. with Local Authorities
• Substantial on-going evidence and data gathering
• Launch and use of Web Portal
• Strategic Scoping Report published
• Socio-economic research completed
• Sustainability Appraisal process and Advisory Group
  up and running

Next Steps
• On-going: Evidence and data gathering
• ‘Evidence & Emerging Issues Report’ (evidence, policies,
  emerging issues) + SA Scoping report
• Plan Area stakeholder workshops including discussion of
  vision and goals by early December 2011
• Sustainability Appraisal: in parallel with plan production
• Stakeholder consultation (informal) on plan objectives -
  February 2012
• Options workshops provisionally April 2012
• Informal drop in events February 2012

Contact details
Marine planning team:
www.marinemanagement.org.uk/marineplanning
Email: planning@marinemanagement.org.uk
Portal: planningportal.marinemanagement.org.uk
Telephone: 0191 376 2790

Marine Planning Liaison officers:
Flamborough Head to Skegness
Sally Bradley: Tel: 01472 355 112 or 07770 934 656
Email: sally.bradley@marinemanagement.org.uk
The Wash to Weybourne
Jez Sooben: Tel: 01502 573 149 or 07831 174 216
Email: jeremy.sooben@marinemanagement.org.uk
Sheringham to Felixstowe
Stacey Mayer: Tel: 01502 573 149 or 07766 214 855
Email: stacey.mayer@marinemanagement.org.uk