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Marine and Coastal Planning:
What’s it got to do with you?
21st April 2016
Using Seascape Character Assessments as a tool to
integrate marine and terrestrial planning
Chris Drake, Coastal Officer, Kent County Council
Dover Harbour
Piloting an approach to
Seascape Character
Assessment in the Dover Strait
LUC February 2013
Text covering the following :• Natural influences
• Cultural/historic influences
• Aesthetic/perceptual qualities
Text on key issues affecting valued seascapes
attributes under the following headings:
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Development and transport
Tourism and recreation
Coastal land and marine resource management
Aquaculture and fishing
Environmental processes and climate change
Strait wide issues
Communications workshop and tool kit – January 2015
Messages for…
• Academic audience
• Kent County Council audiences
• The general public
• District Councils (Dover, Thanet, Shepway) • Developers and commercial organisations,
• Ministers
including fishing, ports, logistics and consult
Message 1: The Dover Strait is an iconic part of our landscape.
Encompassing coastal communities and marine habitats, it’s an
environmental treasure trove, an area rich in heritage and history – and also
an important and growing economic hub.
Insight 1: It’s essential that we all understand, look after and develop the Strait for
future generations to use and enjoy.
Media coverage in 2015
7 articles in Kent press , also articles in;
Trade Winds (international shipping publication)
Planning Magazine (national publication)
ITV Meridian coverage
Reinforcement work 2015 - District Council meetings
Development Control
Local Visual Impact assessment (LVIA) should use a SCA if one exists
Planning Strategy
To provide a maritime context when writing your local plan
When drawing up local plan policy
Potential for drawing up a supplementary planning document
Marine and Coastal Planning:
What’s it got to do with…
local authorities?
Next steps
Monitoring use of the Dover Strait SCA
Looking for opportunities to extend it
Using it as a basis for further Interreg projects
Integrating the study into web tools
Working with French colleague on use across the strait
Working with MMO and NE at the national level
Thank you
Chris Drake
03000 413360
[email protected]