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Lowestoft Ness Point

Lowestoft Ness Point
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Lowestoft Ness
to Felixstowe Landguard Point

A Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) is a large-scale assessment of the risks associated with coastal processes which seeks to reduce these risks to people and the developed, historic and natural environments. An SMP determines the natural forces which are shaping the shoreline to assess how it is likely to change over the next 100 years, taking account of the condition of existing defences. The SMP develops policies outlining how the shoreline should be managed in the future, balancing the scale of the risks with the social, environmental and financial costs involved, and avoiding adverse impacts on adjacent coastal areas.

The preparation of an SMP is the responsibility of the operating authorities responsible for managing the coastline. In Suffolk these organisations are Suffolk Coastal District Council, Waveney District, British Energy and the Environment Agency – in association with Natural England and Suffolk County Council.:

The first generation Shoreline Management Plan for the Suffolk coastline, between Lowestoft and Felixstowe, was completed in 1998, covering a length of coastline of approximately 72 km. This SMP is now being reviewed by Royal Haskoning UK Ltd for Suffolk Coastal District Council as lead authority for the operating authorities. Terry Oakes Associates Ltd is project managing the development of the new SMP on behalf of SCDC.

The review will be undertaken fully in accordance with and follow the methods set out in the Government’s publication “Shoreline Management Plans Guidance, Volumes 1 and 2. March 2006” (available here).

The review started in July 2008. The first new draft management policies are already posted on this website. These will be reviewed and updated in advance of the three month public consultation on the proposals in summer 2009. A series of public exhibitions will offer all residents, stakeholders and other organisations the opportunity to view the draft policies, to talk to the people involved in the development of the draft SMP and to contribute their views before the final policies are formulated. The final document will be available later in 2009/2010.

 

Landguard Point

Landguard Point

 

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