Beachy Head to Selsey Bill Shoreline Management Plan 1st Review Key Stakeholders Forum

1. Beachy Head to Selsey BillShoreline Management Plan1st ReviewKey Stakeholders Forum Roger Spencer (Arun DC) Adam Hosking (Halcrow Group) www.sdcg.org.uk SMP4D@Halcrow.com

2. Structure for today • Introductions • Presentation • SMP background • Stakeholder Involvement Strategy • Issues Identification Approach • Questions on Approach • Break-out sessions to review issues table • What next in SMP?

3. Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) • The SMP is a (non-statutory) policy document for coastal defence management planning • It will however take account of other existing planning initiatives and legislative requirements • It will inform wider (statutory) strategic planning, but • It will not set policy for anything other than coastal defence management

4. COASTAL DEFENCE PLANNINGThe UK Strategic Framework

5. Aim of the SMP • To promote sustainable management policies for a coastline into the 22nd century • Seek to achieve long-term objectives without committing to unsustainable defences • Consider objectives, policy setting and management requirements for 3 main time periods…. …. 0-20 years, 20-50 years and 50-100 years • Provide a timeline for management changes, which will provide direction for decision makers to move from the present towards the future

6. Why review the SMP? • SMPs are working documents that need to be revised to incorporate up-to date information and changes in policy guidance and ongoing shoreline evolution • First SMP was produced in 1996/7 • New SMP needs to take account of: • Latest technical studies (e.g. Futurecoast) • Issues identified by most recent defence planning (i.e. coastal defence strategy plans which now cover most of the SMP area) • Changes in legislation (e.g. EU Habitat Directive) • Changes in national defence planning requirements

7. SMP work flow

8. SMP work flow: Data Gathering Project team

9. SMP work flow : Initial data assessments and define objectives

10. SMP work flow: Policy appraisal and SMP production

11. Role of Issues & Objectives(‘Issues’ are raised by stakeholders/reviews, ‘objectives’ aim to resolve issues) • Central to new approach to SMPs • Informs selection of policies • Provides focus for stakeholder consensus • Policy appraisal is ‘objective led’ • Objectives appraised to identify most suitable shoreline management policy

12. SMP Management Model Other individualstakeholdersandorganisationsnot on theForum CONTRACTOR KEYSTAKEHOLDERS’FORUM CLIENT MANAGEMENTGROUP

13. Remit of Key Stakeholders’ Forum • Comprises representatives of the key stakeholder organisations likely to be affected by the SMP • Suggests issues and their priorities to be considered within the SMP • Meets periodically throughout production of SMP • Provides comment on proposals of Client Management Group and the Contractor

14. KSF Membership

15. Approach to Stakeholder Involvement • Identified organisations and individuals with an interest in the preparation of the SMP • Letter of Invitation explaining reasoning and background to all Stakeholders • Questionnaire to all Stakeholders asking for contact details, data and concerns/issues • Discussions with the Client Management Group comprising the local authorities, Environment Agency, English Nature and Defra

16. Approach to Identifying Issues • Familiarisation visits to whole coastline, concentrating on sensitive areas • Review of current SMP • Review of information and other documents provided by authorities and found on the internet • Issues raised in the responses to the questionnaires sent to 150 stakeholders

17. Issues based methodology • Provides systematic and consistent evaluation process of subjective and objective criteria • Identifies what really matters not just the obvious • Offers a strategic approach • Based upon ‘Quality of Life Capital’, developed by Countryside Agency, English Nature, English Heritage and the Environment Agency

18. Identification of Issues

19. Issues Table for Sub-Cell 4d (cont) • Beneficiaries ranked as: • Individuals – not organisations • Local – residents, groups in immediate area • Regional Users – local authorities, regional communities, organisations and businesses • National Users – National organisations • International Users

20. Issues Table for Sub-Cell 4d • Three forms of issues • technical • environmental • socio-economic • Generic issues for: • Towns and other settlements • Open coast

21. Generic Issues for Towns • Protecting people and their homes • Protecting commercial property and the local economy • Protecting local infrastructure and services • Protecting recreation and tourism sites and activities • Maintaining access to the beach • Protecting of specific designated sites and features

22. Generic Issues for Open Coast • Preserving environmental designations e.g. SSSI, SNCI, SPA, AONB, NNR • Protecting agricultural land • Maintaining access to the beach for launching/recreation • Protecting marine archaeological sites • Protecting coastal developments

23. Structure for today • Introductions • Presentations • SMP background • Stakeholder Involvement Strategy • Issues Identification Approach • Questions on Approach • Break-out sessions to review issues table • What next in SMP?

24. Break out sessions • Divide into groups • Consider in turn, • the ISSUES (does it affect policy?), • the FEATURES these relate to • Why is this important, i.e. what are the BENEFITS • WHO benefits • Remember to also consider TIMESCALES over which these apply (0-20, 20-50, 50-100 years)

25. Next Steps • Finalise the issues table • Use process study to appraise potential future flooding and erosion risks (over 20, 50 and 100 years) • Use ‘theme reviews’ to rank shoreline management objectives • Review by Stakeholders. • Policy Appraisal

26. Converting Issues to Objectives • Ranking objectives is based upon answering 4 questions: • At what scales (spatial/temporal) is the benefit important? If the feature were lost tomorrow, at what (spatial) scale would there be an impact? Also, is the feature, or benefit, of finite temporal importance (i.e. less that 100 years?). • Can the benefit be substituted? Can the benefit can be replaced at the appropriate scale. • Is there enough of the benefit? Scarcity of the benefit at the scale at which it is important. • Importance of the benefit at the SMP scale or greater? If the feature were lost tomorrow, what would the impact be?

27. Objective SettingRanking of Objectives

28. Policy Appraisal Once we have defined and agreed the ranked objectives, they will be used in policy appraisal. There are 4 possible policy options: • hold the existing defence line • advance the existing defence line • managed realignment • no active intervention These will be appraised to develop ‘policy scenarios’ which will be tested against process understanding to determined preferred policy. Review by Key Stakeholders and Elected members.

29. Points to consider • In answering the questions for the range of issues affecting the coast we need to consider: • What should we use to appraise whether there is enough of a benefit e.g. housing or shops? County/Regional housing targets? • Are all SSSI sites unique, or should we count some as re-creatable? (EN/CWT guidance) • Are all urban assets more beneficial than rural assets, due to future regeneration/development potential? (Development sites or more general) • How should we appraise importance of features such as recreation areas? Primary users, e.g. local, etc?

30. Meeting 2 • Thursday 27 November 2003 • Review objectives • Appraise Ranking • Agree way forward with policy appraisal. • Comments to:SMP4D@Halcrow.com