UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LANDSCAPE · COASTAL
Shoreline Management Plan Policy
What this layer shows
Second-generation Shoreline Management Plan policy for each stretch of England's coast, for 0–20, 20–50 and 50–100 years in that order: hold the line (HTL), managed realignment (MR), no active intervention (NAI) or advance the line (ATL). The route map coastal authorities work to.
Publisher and licence
Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved · Open Government Licence v3.0
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved. Open Government Licence v3.0
Where the data comes from
WFS · environment.data.gov.uk
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
Facts shown for each feature
Plan · Unit · EA area
In these presets
Coastal
The intertidal and soft-cliff suite: saltmarsh, sand dunes, vegetated shingle, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats and saline lagoons: plus Heritage Coast, Marine Conservation Zones, Scottish MPAs, and the SPA and Ramsar designations that nearly always sit over an estuary. The Coast Path is included because access and designation overlap constantly on this kind of site.
Planning
The constraints that shape a red line: SSSI Impact Risk Zones, Green Belt, the Flood Map for Planning zones and storage areas with present-day rivers-and-sea risk, Agricultural Land Classification (both the provisional national map and the more reliable post-1988 surveys), nutrient neutrality catchments, National Parks, National Landscapes and Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas. Useful for a constraints plan or an early feasibility check before any ecology is commissioned.