1. MMO Marine Planning - Solway
Mel Nicholls 2 November 2018

2. UK Marine Planning Authorities
Marine Scotland
Dept. of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland
Marine Management Organisation (MMO)
Welsh Government

3. Developing new plan areas
NE, SE, SW, NW developed concurrently
Publish all by 2021*
Iterative approach- Iteration 3, Summer 2018 – Spring 2019 NE
As per slide
* Adoption by Aim for June 2020 for contingency, or any Independent Investigation if required

4. Marine planning cycle
Iterations

5. Possible Responses to prevent the issue
WE WILL DEAL WITH THESE IN OPTIONS
Possible Responses to Mitigate or compensate for the issue
WE WILL DEAL WITH THESE IN OPTIONS
Causes:
Think about Key Drivers
Activities
Pressures
Effect:
What is the impact of the issue?
Issue
An issue can be broken down in to causes and effects, both aspects have component parts (as illustrated above). Marine planning has the potential to intervene in either the cause or the effect or both (depending on the issue). Cause/effect relationships are cyclical. The chain doesn’t end with effects, the effects one issue can be the cause of another. Understanding the relationship will allow us to target policy
Talk through the bow tie aspects (the components are defined in later slides)

6. Policy Options All options taken out to stakeholders for review
Both Online and in workshops
11 workshops, 381 participants
1030 responses in online survey
323 comments on Options, 28 on Vision
Options analysed using:
Stakeholder comments
Evidence gathered
Sustainably Assessments.
Final policy options taken forward to address issues in Iteration 3.
Whitehaven (24) and Liverpool (26)

7. Draft NW marine plan area Vision 2041
‘Beautiful, Energetic and Proud’
Growth and variety of the energy generation industry…
Effective transboundary cooperation…
…sustainable growth in marine infrastructure… facilitating expansion of … eg… fisheries, access, ports & harbours, tourism … without jeopardising designated sites.
… a safe haven for birds and other species …resilience to the impacts of climate change.
DRAFT.
Beautiful, Energetic and… Intertwined
Strong tidal range
SW Scotland Regional Marine Plan.