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SOUTH EAST PLAN
South East PlanESPACE - reminder
Aim
Incorporation of adaptation to climate change within spatial planning mechanisms at local, regional, and European levels
Output
• spatial planning policy guidance
• adoption by partners
• recommendations for integration of guidance
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Regional Assembly action
Development of regional spatial strategy incorporating policies and measures to adapt to climate change
Informed by:
• Water resource & flood risk management information and strategies
• Identification of adaptation measures – illustrated by case studies
• Understanding of Water Framework Directive
• Approaches in partner regions
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Progress
• Review of policies
• Collation of technical data
• Stakeholder engagement and awareness raising
• Intra-regional co-operation – especially with partners in Environment Agency and county councils
• Trans-national co-operation – especially with WSRL and VROM
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Stakeholder and public input into the Draft Plan
Wide range of sources:
• Over 1000 stakeholders provided feedback at a series of 18 ‘Spring Debate’ workshops in April/May 2004
• Three major independent public opinion polls by MORI in 2004-05, using statistically representative samples
• Current consultation includes stakeholder workshops and questionnaire to 3 million homes
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Outputs/Progress
Draft SE Plan consultation
24 January-15 April 2005
5,000 copies sent out
3.3 million leaflets (every household)
Stakeholder events
Opinion surveys - MORI
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Technical information & policy review:
• climate change impacts (with SE Climate Change Partnership)
• water resources (with Environment Agency and Water companies)
• Water quality (with Environment Agency and Water companies)
• Flood risk management (with Environment Agency)
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Themes and coverage
• Economy
• Housing
• Communications & Transport
• Sustainable Natural Resource Management
• Countryside & Landscape
• Built & Historic Environment
• Social & Cultural
• Sub-regional strategies
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Natural resource Management policies
Policy CC2 – Climate Change
• Theme applies to all policies in Plan
• Plan promotes mitigation & adaptation
• Review of policies to ensure compatibility
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Water – key policy themes
Policy NRM1
Sustainable water resources & river quality management
• Role of specific strategies & links to local planning
• Twin-track
• Need for and phasing of infrastructure & development …plus
• Water efficiency
• Flood storage & multiple benefit
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Water - key policy themes
Policy NRM2
Strategic Water Resources Development
• Need for new water resources – including reservoirs
• Identification & safeguarding of sites
• Criteria – need, impact, benefit
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Flood probability & risk
NRM3
Sustainable Flood Risk Management
• Avoid areas of highest probability
• Strategic flood risk assessments
• Keep options open
• Integration of specific strategies and local planning
• Sustainable drainage schemes
SOUTH EAST PLANCase studies and toolkitEnvironment Agency and Assembly March 2005
Toolkit for water adaptation through planning
• Focus on development-scale, not landscape-scale
• Aimed at planners and developers
• Principles – process, flexibility, integration, partnership
• Adaptation – water efficiency & flood risk reduction
• Parallels with Partners’ measures eg Guiding Models
• Tools – policy, development control, regulations/legal, “informatives”
• Role and limitations of planning system
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Case studies and toolkitEnvironment Agency and Assembly March 2005
Case studies
• Illustrating measures promoted in the Toolkit and reflecting SE Plan policies
• Practical adaptations
• Includes Water Assessment and Guiding Models (NL)
• Few very good examples in SE:- new concepts?- complex planning system- resistance/inertia/lack of urgency/costs- limited tools/legal requirement
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Trans-national cooperationand influence
Things learned/taken
• SE Plan policies draw on principles adopted in partner regions eg making space for water, water assessment
• Lack of legal requirement for water assessment, spatial claim, water test hinders delivery
• Potential to adapt UK system to reflect good practice
• Complex system and number of plans
• Need for stronger link between water management and spatial planning
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Trans-national cooperationand influence
Things to give/teach
• Adapting less-than-ideal systems
• Role of persuasion and informatives
• Joining-up of fragmented plans and strategies – the role of regional spatial planning in the UK
• Experience of consultation and consensus building in challenging political climate...
• Sustainability appraisal and strategic environmental assessment
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Timetable
• Consultation to 15 April
• Analysis of representations and sustainability appraisal, and amendment of policies – Summer 2005
• Assembly agreement of Plan in July 2005
• Submission to Government late 2005
• Further consultation and Examination
• Adoption 2007
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South East PlanGaps and Barriers
• Conflicting objectives & priorities – especially housing and economic growth, locational requirements and environmental impact – hinders true integration
• Lack of clarity over appropriate & effective measures
• Lack of obligation and legal requirements
• Plethora of sectoral plans
• Poor link between water management and planning
• Rigid top-down planning – hinders innovation
• Inertia and lack of urgency
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South East Plan Further input from partnership
• Review of draft Plan (Chapter D5) and comment
• Climate Change Implementation Plan –(in development by Assembly)
• Identification of possible approaches and tools, and relevance/adaptability to SE situation
• Implications of Water Framework Directive – relevance to ESPACE?
• Case studies – review and additions