1. Public Participation & stakeholder engagement Planning Scotland’s Seas – 2013 Anna Donald

2. Draft National Marine Plan
Marine Protected Areas Network – 33 areas (& List of Priority Marine Features)
Sectoral Marine Plans for Offshore Renewable Energy – 28 sites

3. Consultation fatigue?? National Marine Plan Marine Strategy Forum
Local Coastal Partnerships
Web presence
Statement of Public Participation
Pre-consultation document
Assessment (Marine Atlas)
Sustainability Appraisal
Consultation
Independent investigation
Parliamentary scrutiny
Challenge
Review
Marine Protected Areas
Marine Strategy Forum
Selection criteria
Stakeholder workshops
3rd party input
Report to Parliament
Consultation
Impact assessment
Management options
Review of science
Designation

4. Sectoral Marine Planning Process
Identify / Refine Search Areas
Consultation
Refine Areas
Assess Areas
Statutory Consultation
Finalise Areas
Adopt Areas

5. Extended consultation period
Website
Focus on fishing data and displacement
Press Notices
27 Marine Scotland Events held around the coast and Islands
23 separate events on MPAs
Underwater video and pictures
Partnership working
USB sticks available at events containing all the consultation documents and respondent forms
All schools in Scotland sent a leaflet about consultation
Local intelligence
E-book versions
Interactive mapping
548 libraries sent consultation leaflets
Radio adverts
Presentations available
Touchtable technology
s to over 8000 stakeholders
Social media

6. Press Notices
27 Marine Scotland Events held around the coast and Islands
23 separate events on MPAs
USB sticks available at events containing all the consultation documents and respondent forms
All schools in Scotland sent a leaflet about consultation
548 libraries sent consultation leaflets
Radio adverts
s to over 8000 stakeholders

8. Results & Reflections 14,707 630 124 Local interest/context
Results & Reflections
14,707
630
124
Local interest/context
Making it real and testing the evidence
Range of audience – campaigns, communities, commercial interests
Logistics
Variety and flexibility
Consistency and partnership working
Cumulative impacts and common issues

9. Opportunities and Challenges?
Technology
Telling the story, in the right way
Accessibility of material
Analysing informal engagement
In a statutory context….