Hunstanton to Kelling Hard SMP5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 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 Group | Progressing | Medium |
| 2.1 | 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. | East Anglia Coastal Group | Progressing | Medium |
| 2.2 | 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. | Environment Agency | Not yet started | Medium |
| 10.1 | 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. | Environment Agency | Not yet started | Medium |
| 11.1 | 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. | Environment Agency | Not yet started | Medium |
| 13.1 | 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. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Medium |
| 29 | 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. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Medium |
| 30 | Develop, monitor and review emergency response plans to prepare for extreme events that exceed designed standards of protection. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Medium |
| 31 | 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 |
| 5 | Review (and if necessary, extend) monitoring programme to correspond with and inform trigger level assessments. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Medium-low |
| 7 | 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. | Environment Agency | On hold | Medium-low |
| 8 | Investigate potential of SMP management intent to respond to relevant drivers for environmental improvement such as: carbon sequestration & mitigation to meet national and organisation-based carbon targets; 25 Year Environment Plan initiatives such as Nature Recovery Network establishment and potential Biodiversity Net Gain requirements; Environmental Land Management Scheme targeting; opportunity mapping & other resources from EA partnership initiative Restoring Estuarine and Coastal Habitats; and River Basin Management Plan Mitigation Plans. | Natural England | On hold | Medium-low |
| 9 | Use outcomes from the review to identify priority locations for adaptation and habitat creation in the SMP, with attention to how compensation and restoration opportunities might be linked spatially & financially, & potential FCRM benefit (either re direct protection or costs avoided now or in longer term). | Natural England | On hold | Medium-low |
| 10 | 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. | Natural England | On hold | Medium-low |
| 13 | Manage and continue to develop the coastal change monitoring programme. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Medium-low |
| 1 | Establish and maintain an SMP Group within the East Anglia 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. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Low |
| 3 | Ensure management approaches are clear by applying and maintaining sub-categories in line with SMP Refresh Supplementary Guidance, and maintain to reflect any changes in Policy Tracker. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Low |
| 4 | Consider approach and appropriateness of Management Triggers for policy transitions in line with new Supplementary SMP Guidance. | Environment Agency | Progressing | Low |
| 6 | Improve and capture understanding of the impact of climate change on the North Norfolk coast’s system and the associated triggers for policy change (defence performance, habitats, navigation) in line with guidelines being produced by the SMP Refresh project. | Environment Agency | On hold | Low |
| 11 | With reference to each section of Supplementary Guidance Part 2, ensure relevant assessments accompany any changes to SMP local policy, particularly legal assessments relating to protected sites. Identify needs associated with the change such as new or amended Coastal Change Management Areas. | Environment Agency | On hold | Low |
| 12 | Develop and maintain an understanding of the impact of SMP policy implementation on coastal geodiversity across the SMP area, including important geological features and coastal processes. | Natural England | On hold | Low |
Download SMP documents
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
- The SMP Main report
- Appendix A - SMP development
- Appendix B - Engagement and consultation
- Appendix C - Baseline processes
- Appendix D - Thematic review
- Appendix E - Policy development and appraisal
- Appendix F - Shoreline interactions and responses
- Appendix G - Policy appraisal
- Appendix H - Economic appraisal
- Appendix I - Bibliographic database
- Appendix J - Sustainability appraisal signposting
- Appendix K - Water Framework Directive compliance assessment
- Appendix L - Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Appendix M - Appropriate Assessment
Non-technical summary
About this SMP
This Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) covers the Norfolk coastline between Old Hunstanton in Norfolk and the shingle ridge at Kelling Hard near the villages of Salthouse and Kelling.
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:
- Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
- Norfolk County Council
- North Norfolk District Council
- English Heritage
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Norfolk Coast Partnership
- Port of Wells
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 B of the document. This can be found by selecting the Download tab.