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Shoreline Management Plan

Selsey Bill to Hurst Spit SMP13

Coastal Group: Southern

The Selsey Bill to Hurst Spit Shoreline Management Plan is split into 9 areas. Their boundaries have been set based on analysis of coastal processes and the character of the shoreline. Select an area to find out more information about it.

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General actions for this SMP

This shows the actions generic to the whole of this SMP. For further actions relating to specific locations, select an area on the map above or use the postcode/location search and click on the Action Plan tab.

All actions are subject to funding and approval, often by other parties than the Lead Organisation shown.

Reference Number	Action Description	Action Lead Organisation	Action Progress Status	Priority
13.0302	Undertake study to improve understanding and identify funding sources and stacking of benefits for delivery of multiple environmental outcomes.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group		High
13.0351	Undertake strategic Solent and South Downs Coastal Grazing Marsh study.	Coastal Partners		High
13.19	Undertake strategic Solent and South Downs Saline Lagoon study.	Coastal Partners		High
13.44	Solent Dynamic Coast Project (SDCP) update - Update the Solent Dynamic Coast Project developed in 2008, with the latest sea level rise guidance (UKCP18) to update the original habitat loss and gain targets within the Solent and South Downs area	Coastal Partners		High
13.005	Update the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the SMP to ensure it reflects any changes made to the Plan’s management intent or impacts of existing management intent on Highly Protected Marine Areas, Marine Conservation Zones and SSSIs.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Not yet started	Medium
13.006	Carry out a strategic-level review of the Habitats Regulations Assessment of the SMP to ensure it reflects any changes made to the Plan’s management intent or impacts of existing management intent on newly designated protected European Sites.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Not yet started	Medium
13.007	Carry out a strategic-level review to ensure the SMP reflects the opportunities to meet objectives set out in the River Basin Management Plan covering the SMP’s Transitional and Coastal Waters.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Not yet started	Medium
13.008	Update projections of habitat change using evidence from the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme and local studies with reference to the latest sea level rise projections to inform the Habitat Compensation and Restoration Programme.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Progressing	Medium
13.009	Identify potential opportunities for statutory habitat compensation and take forward through the regional Habitat Compensation and Restoration Programme in discussion with the local Programme Lead.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Progressing	Medium
13.01	Identify potential areas of habitat creation and restoration that could be delivered through Local Nature Recovery Strategies, for Biodiversity Net Gain from development planning, and other initiatives, and align these with the Habitat Compensation and Restoration Programme.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Not yet started	Medium
13.011	Ensure that local and regional development planning documents take account of SMP policies and flood erosion risks, including the designation of Coastal Change Management Areas where potential, predicted or residual risk from flood, landslip or erosion requires consideration in development consents and future planning.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Progressing	Medium
13.012	Secure funding and capacity for ongoing implementation of the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme, ensuring its design continues to capture information required to inform management of key areas of risk or uncertainty within the SMP.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Progressing	Medium
13.013	Use Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme data and local studies to identify the character and timing of key triggers for intervention in areas of the SMP where a transition from one management approach to another will or may be needed.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Not yet started	Medium
13.014	Use data from Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme and local studies to inform improvements to Environment Agency flood and erosion risk data to support published projections of risk that inform SMP management approaches.	Coastal Partners and Environment Agency	Progressing	Medium
13.015	Develop, monitor and review emergency response plans to prepare for extreme events that exceed designed standards of protection.	Environment Agency	Progressing	Medium
13.016	Maintain links between SMP activities and emergency response plans to help prepare for extreme events, promote awareness of the Flood Warning Service and ensure clarity over roles and responsibilities in response and recovery.	Environment Agency	Progressing	Medium
13.017	Develop localised adaptation strategies for locations within the SMP where a transition from one management approach to another will or may be needed, reflecting locally agreed options and triggers for intervention.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Progressing	Medium
13.032	Undertake Solent Coastal Network Study	Coastal Partners	Progressing	Medium
13.0321	Develop and maintain a system to collate, store and distribute Solent bird data.	Coastal Partners		Medium
13.0322	Redevelop and maintain the Solent bird app that was developed as part of the Solent Coastal Network Study.	Coastal Partners		Medium
13.033	Deliver Bird Movement Data Study	Coastal Partners	Progressing	Medium
13.0331	Undertake a GPS bird tagging study to gain a strategic understanding of birds’ movement in the Solent, as recommended by the Bird Movement Study.	Coastal Partners		Medium
13.434	Work with relevant Marine Managemenrt Organisation (MMO) staff to identify within Marine Plans any key potential risks to delivery of SMP management intent, and identify potential responses and disseminate to the Southern Coastal Group.	Coastal Partners		Medium
13.449	SMP 13 management group to support the development and launch of the new online platform for SMPs, SMP Explorer.	Coastal Partners		Medium
13.391	Update SMP guidance note on planning - review and update SMP guidance note, with the potential for development management and planning policy versions.	SMP Planning Sub-group		Medium
13.432	Set up a Planning sub-group for SMP 13 - Meet regularly to identify priority planning interface issues, opportunities and engagement priorities, and feed progress on these actions back to SMP 13 Management Group.	Coastal Partners	Progressing	Medium
13.442	Identify all the new environmental designations since 2010, in the SMP 13 area to identify where SMP policy may affect new or extended protected sites.	Coastal Partners		Medium-low
13.8	Monitoring Programme - Review & extend monitoring programme to correspond with and inform trigger level assessments	Channel Coastal Observatory		Medium-low
13.392	Planning Hot Spot Area Information - provide notes on key hotspot areas, relating to specific coastal management issues which may impact Development Management and/or planning policy considerations.	SMP Planning Sub-group		Medium-low
13.4322	Set up a web page relating to CCMAs, DM, planning and SMPs, to include guidance notes and contacts	Coastal Partners		Medium-low
13.004	Develop a Strategic Communications and Engagement Plan to ensure the SMP has profile with those making investment and planning decisions, and is used and understood by those living or working at the coast (or seeking to do so) within the SMP area.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Not yet started	Low
13.33	Report to the Southern Coastal Group and elected members on the implementation of actions and update on our Action Plan	Coastal Partners	Progressing	Low
13.4321	Have yearly SMP area planners workshops, to discuss current topics relating to the links between SMP and planning and hot topics. Could be supported nationally.	Coastal Partners	Progressing	Low
13.435	Landfill technical note - produce a Landfill Technical Note, outlining key shoreline management issues and implications on planning policy & Development Management.	Coastal Partners		Low
13.17	Production of System Asset Management Plans to deliver SMP policy for Epoch 1. Environment Agency to advise Local Authority and private owners how to feed into process from land drainage and coastal protection perspectives	Environment Agency	Progressing
13.231	Update the 2012 SCOPAC Sediment Transport Study (STS) for the Southern Coastal Group Region in three phases: (1) roll-out of the BCP Mike 21 model to cover the Southern Coastal Group region. (2) SCOPAC storm analysis update and coastal change update. (3) Produce the STS update.	Pending Agreement
13.241	Undertake scanning, geo-rectification and analysis of historical aerial photography to better predict future coastal change.	Coastal Partners	Progressing
13.27	Disseminate EA/ CIRIA review of contaminated land sites and apply to the North Solent region.	Environment Agency	Progressing
13.001	Establish and maintain an SMP Group within the South East Coastal Group to monitor, report and co-ordinate implementation of SMP actions and management approaches, review and manage changes to the SMP, and promote the SMP in investment programmes and local development planning.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Progressing
13.002	Establish a communications and engagement approach to ensure that elected members of local councils are aware of and understand the management approaches agreed in the SMP, and the opportunities and implications for their local area.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Not yet started
13.003	Engage with the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to ensure the investment needs arising from the SMP – including resource to update and maintain the SMP - are reflected in flood and coastal erosion risk management investment planning.	Coastal Partners / SMP13 Management Group	Progressing

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The information on this website represents the current SMP management approaches adopted by the local authorities within its area, and current actions needed to deliver them. These management approaches have been approved by the Environment Agency under its Strategic Overview for coastal flood and erosion risk management and are considered to be local policy.

The documents below provide the full SMP adopted locally and approved by the Environment Agency at the time of publication. Some of the information has changed in response to new government policy, new evidence or new work identified.

Data on this page

Main report

Appendices

Changes and addendums

Addendum to Appendix K

Supporting documents

About this SMP

This Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) covers the coastline between Selsey Bill in West Sussex and Hurst Spit, near Keyhaven in Hampshire.

You can read the full SMP document by selecting the Download tab. This SMP was completed in 2010 and received formal adoption and sign off from relevant local authorities and the Environment Agency.

Managing shorelines in this area

The SMP for this area presents agreed approaches to managing the risk of coastal flooding and erosion at the shoreline and in estuaries over the short, medium, and long term, considering the implications of climate change.

In some locations, the approaches set out in the SMP change over time, for example from holding the current shoreline position with defences to realigning it or allowing the coast to change more naturally.

The SMP shows where this may affect people, property or the natural environment and the action plan includes measures to manage the local effects of coastal change. Local development planning can then be used to help avoid or address these effects, for example by identifying where new or relocated buildings can be built and defining any conditions to promote safety or sustainability. More localised Coastal Strategies may also be developed to identify how the approach in the SMP should be funded and implemented in more detail. You can find these under the Related Links tab for the SMP.

The objectives of the SMP can be found in the national SMP Guidance document (Volume 1, section 2.1). In summary, they are to identify preferred approaches for

managing flood and erosion risk to existing properties and other assets
identifying approaches that are economically, technically and environmentally sustainable
protecting and enhancing the natural features and character of the coast through these approaches where possible

Managing inland flood risk

To find out more about managing future flood risk inland, see the Flood Risk Management Plan.

Developing this SMP

The group that developed and agreed this SMP included:

Chichester District Council
Eastleigh Borough Council
Fareham Borough Council
Gosport Borough Council
Hampshire Country Council
Havant Borough Council
New Forest District Council
Portsmouth City Council
Southampton City Council
Test Valley Borough Council
West Sussex County Council
Winchester City Council
Channel Coastal Observatory
Chichester Harbour Conservancy
Environment Agency
Natural England
New Forest National Park Authority

The group consulted the public and engaged with a range of stakeholders interested in the area’s coastal management while developing this SMP. The SMP was approved by the Environment Agency and formally adopted by each local authority. You can find further details of how the group developed the SMP in Appendix A of the document. This can be found by selecting the Download tab.

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