MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING

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MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING

• Jim Claydon
• Terence ORourke

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The Marine Bill White Paper (2007)

• Marine Spatial Planning
• Marine Management Organisation
• Marine Consenting
• Marine Environmental Protection
• Fisheries Management

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Why MSP?

• A demonstration project
• To deliver sustainable development
• To provide a strategic and integrated overview of
  future development
• To implement inter/national objectives
• To promote transparent governance

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Marine spatial plan

• Definition
• A strategic plan for regulating, managing and
  protecting the marine environment that addresses
  the multiple, cumulative and potentially
  conflicting uses of the sea
• R. Canning (2003)

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What is a Spatial Plan?

• It is a plan that integrates a wide variety of
  sectoral policies (including distributional and
  regulatory policies) in space
• It is temporal, covering a period of time, and
  renewed from time to time
• It is hierarchical, being consistent with
  different scales of plan covering the same
  geographic area (e.g national, regional and
  local)
• It provides a framework for decision-making

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Sectoral Approach v. MSP
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How to produce a Marine Spatial Plan - Irish Sea
Pilot

• A logical and repeatable process
• An inclusive process - stakeholders and public
  engagement
• A process incorporating the necessity for SEA
• A creative and evaluative process
• A process which is explicit and an outcome that
  is challengeable
• Produced at a regional sea level

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Plan Production Process
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Policy Integration
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Community Involvement Representation

• Involve stakeholders and other interested
  parties at key stages in the process, as
  follows
• Identification and prioritisation of objectives
• Evaluation of options
• Consultation on the submitted plan and
  opportunity to object

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Strategic Environmental Assessment/
Sustainability Appraisal (SEA/SA)

• Conduct a SEA/SA throughout the process of
  plan production and meet the EU directive
  requirements.
• To promote sustainable development through better
  integration of sustainability considerations into
  plan making
• To assess impact of proposals
• Should be integral to plan making
• Should improve policy
• Should lead to better decision-making

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Examination Adoption

• Independent, round table, examination of
  proposals including views of objectors
• Formal adoption of MSP based on recommendations
  of independent inspector
• Will be the responsibility of IPC

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Implementation

• Put MSP into effect through management of
  development, certification, licensing and public
  investment.
• Identify agencies involved and establish
  programme and resourcing.
• Possible role for Marine Management Organisation
  and Marine Development Permits
• Identify related plans required for detailed
  level implementation
• Establish targets and indicators against which to
  measure progress.

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Monitoring Review

• An on-going process of examining the effects of
  the plan
• Regular measurement of indicators and targets
  linked to objectives and policies
• Use outputs of monitoring as a basis for formal
  review of the plan at regular intervals
• Annual monitoring report

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Plan programme
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Contents of Regional Plan

• Policy context and objectives
• Spatial framework and zoning plan
• Plan policies, objectives and targets
• Sectoral environmental resources, environmental
  quality, infrastructure, tourism/recreation
  leisure, marine transport, and military
  activities
• Maps existing and future allocations
• Implementation, monitoring review -
  Targets indicators

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Policy Hierarchy
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Integration is Key
Integration
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Information Requirements

• Existing polices, objectives and targets
• Spatial data
• Existing activities
• Resources
• Future use requirements/constraints

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• Landuse

• Tourism

• Oil Gas

• Mariculture

• Coastal
• Defence

• Ports
• Navigation

• Military
• Activities

• Culture

• Conservation

• Dredging
• Disposal

• Fishing

• Renewable
• Energy

• Marine
• Recreation

• Mineral
• Extraction

• Submarine
• Cables

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Spatial Allocation I

• Existing uses
• Assumption that existing uses will continue in
  existing locations where sustainable
• Reflect rights assigned to different users at
  different times
• Multiple use is the norm
• Extensive conflict management/ avoidance already
  in place

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Spatial Allocation II

• Future Uses
• Future use zoning for certain sectors
• Renewable energy developments
• Aggregate extraction
• Nature conservation
• Heritage protection
• Locations identified based on distribution of
  resources and constraints
• Preferred areas rather than exclusive allocations

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Future Use Zoning Plan

• Tidal stream devices
• Aggregate extraction
• Representative MPAs
• Natura 2000

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Tidal Environmental Constraints
Anglsea Area
Shipping Routes
Wrecks Data
Potential Natura Sites
Ship Navigation Traffic Separation Zones
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Related Plans

• Marine Spatial Plan Scheme - details the nature
  and type of local plans to be produced
• Subsidiary plans statutory plans with specific
  objectives and targets
• Other statutory plans
• Non-statutory plans

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Subsidiary Plans

• Sub-regional - plans for areas of intense
  activity and/or conflict in need of detailed
  planning
• Sectoral - plans for complex activities across a
  broad area in need of specific long-term spatial
  planning
• Multiple use - identifying ways in which certain
  areas are capable of being exploited
  simultaneously or in sequence by different uses

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Other Plans

• Statutory
• Single Schemes of Management
• River Basin Management Plans
• Non-Statutory/Supplementary Documents
• Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plans
• Shoreline Management Plans
• Estuary Management Plans
• Coast Management Plans
• Beach Management Plans
• Harbour Plans

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Marine Spatial Plan Framework
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Related Plans - Conclusion

• Potentially a large number of related marine and
  coastal plans
• MSP provides opportunity to rationalise and
  establish hierarchy linked to terrestrial plans
• Potential for consistency of policy evidence
  and rationalisation of stakeholder/community
  involvement
• MSP Scheme provides a framework for iterative
  management of plans and ability to respond to
  change

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Marine Management Organisation

• The Options
• One body for whole of UK/England plus
• Regionally based bodies
• Extend local government remit
• The Issues
• Plan-making and regulatory
• Free standing or Departmental Agency
• Funding
• Accountability

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Benefits of MSP

• Mechanism to deliver sustainable development
• Environmental benefits
• Clear environmental objectives, ecosystem
  approach, management framework
• Socio-economic benefits
• Optimization of sea use, greater certainty, cost
  reduction (consenting)
• Administrative benefits
• Plan led approach to decision making, consent
  streamlining, info availability and
  co-ordination, stakeholder focus, forum for
  conflict resolution

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Added Value

• Collective spatial information system
• Clearer national and regional sectoral policies
• National marine planning framework and MPPS
• Provides integration and delivery mechanism, sea
  use optimization
• Co-ordinated management
• Secures the above

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MSP Conclusions

• Integration of economic, social and environmental
  objectives sustainable development
• Allocation for future uses
• Delivery of the ecosystem approach
• Integrated marine management tool - adaptive
  management
• Increased certainty for investment and sectoral
  planning