Working Together for Coastal Planning around the Severn Estuary

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Working Together for Coastal Planning around the Severn

Estuary

Dr Tim Stojanovic,Cardiff University/COREPOINT

project June 2007


Strategic Coastal Issues?• Reducing offshore

impacts of development• water quality, • physical disturbance, • landscape, • recreational pressures.

• Coastal Access• Flooding/Erosion• Marine Nature

Conservation Impacts- designated areas

• Accommodation of accelerated sea level rise

• Impacts of Development from offshore • e.g. Barrage! • Renewable Energy


Development Plans around the Severn

Estuary


Issues in Your Coastal Zone


Jigsaw Exercise

• PPG 20/TAN 14, define policies for:-Undeveloped coast-Partially developed coast-Developed coast-Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk

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SEA of Development Plans in the Severn

Estuary


Why SEA?

• EC Directive 2001/42/EC (SEA Directive)• UK regulations Environmental Assessment of Plans and

Programmes 2004 (SEA Regulations)• Welsh• English

• Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004• Sec 62 (6) Sustainability Appraisal for LDPs

• Sec 39 (2) Sustainability Appraisal for RSS & Local Development Documents:

• Development Plan Documents (DPDs) • Supplementary Planning Document (SPDs),

• UDPs (preparation >21 July 2004, and which are not adopted by 21 July 2006)


SEA Process

Stage ASetting the context and objectives, establishing

the baseline and deciding on the scope

Stage BDeveloping and refining alternatives and assessing effects

Stage CPreparation of the Environmental Report

Stage DConsulting on the Draft plan or programme

and the Environmental Report

Stage EMonitoring the significant effects of implementing

the plan or programme on the environment


LDPs Wales


Development Plan Documents (DPDs) England


Small Group

Interactive exercise on

Information Sources


A. What Purposeful Human Activity Supported?

SEA of Development Plans/Framework• HOW • WHO• WHAT

“A system to assess the environmental implications of the LDP/LDF strategy/programmes/allocations

by Local planning authority in partnership with stakeholders,

in order to ensure sustainable policies (for coasts down to MLW)”


B. What Transformation occurs?

Environmental Outcomes

Incompatible policies

Set of Policies

Improved Environmental Outcomes

Compatible policies

Set of Policies with alternatives considered and best chosen


C. Important Stakeholders Involved

• Customers• Public, Developers, Anyone with interest in

Estuary

• Actors• Planning Officers, SEA officers, Statutory

Consultees, Developers, Consultants

• Owners• Planning Committee Councillors, Planners


D. Break down the activity into 7+/-2 key stages

• Screen for Issues• Scope• Set Objectives• Report• Monitor• Collect baseline data• Are statutory sites affected?• Consult other organisations






Testing Plan and Programme Objectives against SEA objectives


Indicators of Existing Status

• ODPM guidance on SEA (ODPM, October 2003), advises that:

sufficient data about the current and likely state of the environment without further intervention should be collected to allow a plan’s effects to be adequately predicted.