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Planning for Marine and Coastal Business, 15th April 2010

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Venue: Southampton Science Park, Chilworth


The Solent Forum is managing a project called SoMaP (Towards a Solent Marine Planning). SoMaP is helping prepare Solent stakeholders for the new marine planning system.

This event is part of a series of meetings being held, others will be held in: Eastleigh, Fareham and Hamble, Portsea, Havant, Gosport and Langstone, Chichester and West Sussex and the Isle of Wight)involving all organisations representing a whole range of sectors in the Solent.

The meetings will be used to disseminate information and find out how businesses would like to be involved in marine planning and obtain information on coastal policies and strategies.

This event will include an introduction to the SoMaP project and will include:

A presentation on project objectives, timing and progress. Include a list of all planned stakeholder meetings

Marine Planning Presentation
Presentation on how the new Marine Planning System is being implemented and over which plan areas and questions

Stakeholder involvement in Marine Planning
Discussion on how stakeholders would like to be involved in the marine planning process.

Scoping Marine Planning
- Marine Plan Boundaries
- Scale of marine planning
- Timing and order of plans
- Enforcement
- Scheme of management - under MMO
- Content of a Marine Plan
- Channels of Communication

Building a policy database
Using spreadsheet collect top policies by sector and understand hierarchy

To find out more go to http://www.solentforum.org/forum/SoMaP/

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Posted 2010-02-11 09:54:42

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