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Stakeholder Engagement for Shoreline Management PlansLessons for Marine Planning
Kath WinnardAtkins Limited
Stakeholder Engagement for Shoreline Management Plans
● Stakeholder engagement in Shoreline Management Plans
● What did we do?
● What worked?
● What didn’t and why?
● What lessons can be learned for marine planning?
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Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Groups● Project Management Group - a sub set of Coastal Group
● Coastal Group – overall development of the SMP
● Elected Members Forum (EMF)– elected members from the local authorities
● Key Stakeholder Group (KSG) – stakeholders with primary interests – user groups, community councils, parish councils, conservation groups, industry
● Other Stakeholders – everyone else
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Stakeholder Engagement
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3 month Public Consultation
Consult with Key Stakeholders
Consult with Key Stakeholders
Initial contact with Stakeholders
Identify Stakeholders
Coastal Group consultation
Severn Estuary SMP2
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Characteristics of the Severn
● Cross border SMP2 – England , Wales
● Lots of infrastructure – road, rail, electricity, water/sewerage
● Has been populated for over 2,000 years
● Historically reclaimed land – Gwent Levels
● Agricultural land
● Dispersed / individual properties
● Low laying – flooding is the biggest issue
● Different sources of flooding – tidal, river, run-off, tidal surges, mixture
● Not a lot of data upstream of the M4 bridges
● European / International conservation sites – SAC, SPA, Ramsar
● Other protected sites – local, national, international
● Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study – ‘Severn Barrage’
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Stakeholders in the Severn
● Severn Estuary Coastal Group (SECG) – 10 local authorities, 3 EA regions, 3 Internal Drainage Boards, 2 Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies, 2 historic environment advisors, Defra, WAG
● Elected Members Forum (EMF) – representatives from each Local Authority, 3 EA Regional Flood Defence Committees
● Key Stakeholders Group (KSG) – over 300 different organisations
● Other Stakeholders – 500,000 people around the Estuary
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What did we do? ● Severn Estuary Partnership – website, database of contacts, e-mail
newsletter, knowledge and experience of issues
● Website – SECG website – area set aside for the SMP2
● E-mail updates – monthly SEP e-news (>1,000 contacts)
● Key Stakeholder Group meetings – Cardiff, Slimbridge, Penarth, Gloucester, Bristol
● Elected Members Forum meeting – Bristol
● Public Consultation & Events – Penarth, Bristol, Gloucester
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What worked?
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● Website – clickable map
● Accessibly document – clickable electronic document
● Coastal Group members
● Individual meetings with planners
● Severn Estuary Partnership
What didn’t work … and why
● Elected Members Forum
● Coastal Group members
● Lack of time
● Confusion – Severn Barrage, different types of flooding, high level strategy, long term planning
● Its complicated – 66 Policy Units, 3 epochs, 4 policy options, 11 very technical appendices
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What lessons can be learned?
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