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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.

• Policy Units
• Main Document
• Appendices

Policy Units

The SMP will include a series of statements presenting the preferred policy and implications for individual locations (Policy Units). Previous SMPs developed ‘coastal process units' and ‘management units' (which are defined in the glossary) to describe recommended policies, but these will be replaced by ‘policy units' which may not match the original boundaries. Policy units are simply lengths of shoreline for which a separate shoreline management policy applies (see the page about the SMP). Three epochs (or periods of time) are defined in the SMP: 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 years from the present.

Information on each policy unit will be presented in Chapter 5.

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

Appendices

Please click here for more information about the Appendices to the main document, containing additional detail.

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