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Contents of the SMP

The new Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) for the Isle of Wight coast is being prepared in 2008 and 2009. The full document will be posted on this website when the Plan is published.

The content of the SMP follows guidelines set out by Defra, the national government department responsible for flood and coastal erosion risk management.

For more information, please see the pages about the main document and appendices.

• Main Document
• Supporting Documents (Appendices)

Main Document

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 The Shoreline Management Plan
1.2 Structure of the SMP
1.3 The Plan development process

Chapter 2: Strategic Environmental Assessment Compliance

Chapter 3: Basis for development of the plan

Chapter 4: The Preferred Plan
4.1 Plan for balanced sustainability
4.2 Predicted implications of the preferred Plan

Chapter 5: Policy Statements Individual Policy Units, including mapping

Chapter 6: Action Plan
6.1 Coastal Defence Management Activities
6.2 Application of the SMP in Spatial planning
6.3 Further Actions to facilitate medium/long term policies
6.4 Management of SMP until next Review

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SMP Supporting Documents (Appendices Volume)

Appendix A: SMP Development
Appendix B: Stakeholder Involvement
Appendix C: Baseline Processes
Appendix D: Thematic Reviews
Appendix E: Issues and Objective Evaluation
Appendix F: Shoreline Interactions and Response
Appendix H: Economics
Appendix I: Metadata and Bibliographic Database

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