Key documents
These are key documents that impact on the East marine plan areas. There is a separate key documents page for key national documents that affect all marine plan areas.
- Evaluation of the potential for co-location of activities in marine plan areas
- This report evaluates the potential for co-location of activities and interests in marine plan areas. It provides a high level screen of the co-location potential of activities/structures, primarily focussing on their physical compatibility/incompatibility and the resulting levels of management that may be required to facilitate successful co-location. The report was published on 30 May 2013 as part of our marine evidence and information reports.
- Evaluation of the current state of knowledge on potential cumulative effects from offshore wind farms (OWF) to inform marine planning and marine licensing
- This report provides a summary of the sensitivity of key environmental receptors, such as birds, mammals, fish, benthos and reptiles, arising from construction and operation of offshore wind farms and considers possible cumulative effects on these receptors. The report includes a specific assessment of receptors in the East of England marine plan areas. The report was published on 30 May 2013 as part of our marine evidence and information reports.
- Recommendations on the use of habitats maps in the planning process and requirements for future planning areas (October 2012)
- The report demonstrates the lack of robust, area-wide evidence for seabed habitats and forces the need to use predictive modeling approaches to obtain area-wide map coverage and was published as part of the first series of marine evidence and information reports.
- Compilation of spatial data on marine recreation activities (October 2012)
- The report covers national recreation activities and those in the East marine plan areas and builds on data and evidence gathered as part of the regional marine conservation zone projects and identifies key gaps, summarises current evidence, key findings and makes some recommendations for future data gathering in the marine recreation sector.
The report was published as part of the first series of marine evidence and information reports. - A review of marine social and economic data (October 2012)
- The report focuses on the preparation of a metadata catalogue of social and economic data, an analysis of the meta data and the development of recommendations to improve the catalogue to help guide decision making towards both the Marine Management Organisation's and Marine Scotland's sustainable development objectives.
The report was published as part of the first series of marine evidence and information reports. - Marine social and economic data: A critical review of tools and methods to apply marine social and economic data to decision making (October 2012)
- The report focuses on a review of tools that incorporate social and economic data and identifies a number of gaps in the current suite of tools and was published as part of the first series of marine evidence and information reports.
- Evaluating the distribution, trends and value of inshore and offshore fisheries in England (October 2012)
- This report collates the currently available evidence on marine fisheries, review its completeness and robustness using a gap analysis for future decision making and support development of the MMO’s fisheries evidence programme.
The report was published as part of the first series of marine evidence and information reports. - Seascape character area assessment (August 2012)
- We have produced this seascape character area assessment to summarise and respond to comments received following the informal consultation of the key characteristics for the 10 character areas as outlined by URS Scott Wilson in their pilot study produced for Natural England.
- Options generation: Initial options (August 2012)
- Unlike terrestrial planning which has well-established key issues such as housing and employment land, it is necessary to identify the key issues for marine planning based on the evidence and stakeholder input. The key issues are considered to be those that are likely to drive or be subject to change in the plan areas and which can be (partly) addressed by planning.
As a starting point for options analysis, it was considered most effective to focus on a couple of key issues and on those for which potential future change, including potential spatial footprint, could be meaningfully described. As a result, we identified wind and aggregates as the starting point for options development, with subsequent consideration of implications for other key issues and how best to address those. - Options workshops summary (August 2012)
- We held workshops in Norwich and Hull on 3 and 4 July with 55 stakeholders representing a range of marine activities. The aims of the workshops were to:
- introduce the initial options and our approach to options development
- get feedback on the implications of each option for different areas of interest and how to address these implications
- understand the views on the proposed options and related responses.
- Draft vision and objectives for East marine plans: Update (May 2012)
- We carried out an informal consultation between 23 March and 20 April 2012 on the Draft vision and objectives for the East marine plans, which set out the background to marine planning and the approach to developing a draft vision and set of objectives. We received 70 responses, containing 1,032 comments, from a wide variety of organisations. Read more about the report.
- Revised Statement of Public Participation (May 2012)
- The Revised Statement of Public Participation (SPP) was approved by the Secretary of State in April 2012 following revisions due changes in the marine planning timeline. The revisions are highlighted in the document in yellow.
- Evidence and Issues Report (February 2012)
- The final Evidence and Issues Report 2012 was published on 7 February 2012 following the consultation on the draft version of the report between 24 November 2011 and 10 January 2012.
- Sustainability appraisal of East Inshore and East Offshore marine plans: Questions and answers (October 2011)
- Sustainability appraisal
runs alongside the plan making process is the sustainability appraisal (SA), which delivers the requirements of the European Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive. The SA will appraise the social, economic and environmental effects of the marine plans to ensure the plans meet with sustainable development objectives. One SA will be produced for the East Inshore plan area and one for the East Offshore plan area.
Read the set of questions and answers (PDF 75 KB) for the sustainability appraisal of East Inshore and East Offshore marine plans. - Marine planning for the East of England (September 2011)
- This is an information leafet (PDF 1.8 MB) about marine planning in the East of England that includes a map of the areas, key contacts, how to get involved and other relevants facts about marine planning in the East Inshore and East Offshore marine plan areas.
- The East marine plan area: maximising the socio-economic benefits of marine planning (July 2011)
- The independently conducted study is a new resource that helps marine planners, developers, local authorities and others with an interest in sustainable development in the marine area to understand various issues affecting coastal communities. It takes a national snapshot of the socio-economic factors currently driving coastal communities in England, from planned developments to tourism, and then looks in more detail at the East of England, the area where the first two marine plans are currently being developed.
- Statement of Public Participation (April 2011)
- The Statement of Public Participation (SPP) was published in April 2011 along with information about how the SPP was developed including a summary of responses from a survey, report from workshops and a summary of responses from a consultation ran in January and February 2011.
- Marine planning – a summary (February 2011)
- Marine planning - a summary (PDF 415 KB) is a general information about marine planning including the legal background, marine plan areas, East marine plan areas, what marine planning is and how we will engage with stakeholders.
- Decision on first marine plan areas (October 2010)
- The report provides more information on the decision methodology for selecting the first two marine plan areas to be planned. The methodology is based on seven decision streams that were examined collectively to ensure a robust decision was made. Read more about the report.
Contact information
Marine Planning Team
Marine Management Organisation
Lancaster House
Hampshire Court
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 7YH
Tel: 0191 376 2790
Email: planning@
marinemanagement.org.uk
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