Results of the Management Plan Consultation

Download the final version of the Management Plan.

There were a total of 78 respondees to the draft Plan, making over 800 individual comments. We are very grateful to those of you who took the time and effort to let the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site Steering Group know your thoughts.

The results of this consultation have now been published in three separate documents:

A. Consultation report

This summarises the process, the key issues raised and the changes that need to be made as a result

consultation_report_for_dorset_and_east_devon_coast_whs_management_plan (355.30 Kb)

B. Annex 1: Detailed schedule of responses to consultation

This list all comments, with the response from the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team, on behalf of the Steering Group.

annex_1_detailed_schedule_of_responses_to_consultation (928.94 Kb)

C. Annex 2: Questionnaire responses

This is a table showing the results from the 22 people who used the questionnaire.

annex_2_questionnnaire_responses (44.25 Kb)

Individual responses are not identified by person, but by a unique Consultee ID number. If you are one of the consultees and wish to know your Consultee ID number, please email your request to consult@jurassiccoast.com with your name and email address or phone number / postal address (if you don't use email). This information will be used to verify your identity and the Consultee IDs will then be emailed back to you.

We are happy to send out a hard copy of any of these documents if required.

Any further comments, or if you have any specific accessibility requirements, please also email consult@jurassiccoast.com.

With kind regards

Don Gobbett, Chair, World Heritage Site Steering Group

Dr Sam Rose, Team Leader, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team

The Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Management Plan (see below) has been considered during the consultation period, and in light of the consultation comments. The response to this can be seen in the following two papers:

1. SEA adoption statement

jcwhs_mpr_sea_adoption_statement_050809 (230.24 Kb)

2. Annex 1: Schedule of agreed changes

jcwhs_mpr_sea_annex_1_schedule_050809 (262.60 Kb)

For further information about this, please email consult@jurassiccoast.com

Have your say on the Jurassic Coast Management Plan

The deadline for feedback has now expired

Do you value the World Heritage Site? How do you use it? What does it mean to you and your community? What are your concerns?

The Dorset and East Devon Coast, also known as the Jurassic Coast, was made a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on December 13^th 2001.

The Steering Group responsible for the Site has undertaken a formal review of the document that sets out how it is managed. This draft Management Plan, last updated in 2003, is required by UNESCO and the British Government and covers the period 2009 to 2014.

The Plan will enable the Steering Group to respond to threats and issues as they arise and help to steer a wide range of activities that can benefit the people of Dorset, Devon and the UK.

UNESCO assert that World Heritage Sites are so important, that they "transcend political boundaries" and therefore become everybody's responsibility to protect and conserve for future generations.

The most important people for the future protection, conservation and use of the Dorset and East Devon Coast are those who live or work on or near it, and visit and enjoy it. This Management Plan is in draft form in order that anyone with an interest in the Site locally or globally, can have a say in its management.

The Plan is available for download below, but please call or email us if you need us to send you a hard copy. Alternatively go to one of the following libraries: Exeter, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Seaton, Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Bridport, Burton Bradstock, Chickerell, Portland Tophill, Portland Underhill, Dorchester, Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Wool, Swanage, Wareham and Poole, where there will be copies available for reference, and some to take away.

Dorset and East Devon Coast WHS Management Plan 2009-2014 consultation draft (923.12 Kb)

To let us know what you think, please use the questionnaire below - hard copies are available from the same places as described above. If you do not wish to use the questionnaire, please just send us your thoughts or comments by email or letter.

Assessing the Plan's impacts on the environment and its sustainability

As part of the Management Plan Review process the Draft Plan has been subject to assessments of its potential environmental effects and its sustainability. These assessments are presented alongside the Plan, as part of the consultation.

The Draft Management Plan has undergone a Strategic Environmental Assessment, or SEA for short. The SEA is to ensure that implementing the Plan will not lead to any significant adverse effects on the environment. The assessment findings and recommendations are presented in an Environmental Report for public consultation. This report also includes an appraisal of the sustainability of the Plan.

There is a full Environmental Report, and a Non-Technical Summary that can be downloaded separately.

Protecting nature conservation sites

The local authorities cannot adopt the Plan until they are certain that it will not have significant effects on certain sites that are important for nature conservation in a European context, known as 'European sites'. The Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Report assesses the impact of implementing the Plan on these European sites.

Dorset and East Devon WHS Habitats Regulations Screening report Consultation Draft (387.22 Kb)

Have your say

To let us know what you think about the impact on the environment, please use the questionnaire below (these are different to the consultation questions on the contents of the Plan itself). If you do not wish to use the questionnaire, please just send us your thoughts or comments by email or letter.

Dorset and East Devon Coast WHS Environmental Report Questionnaire (868.50 Kb)

Contact Details:

Email: consult@jurassiccoast.com or

Phone: 01305 221000 (ask for the Jurassic Coast Team)

Post: Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team, c/o Dorset County Council, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ

The deadline for comments will be Tuesday June 9^th 2009

The deadline for feedback has now expired

Many thanks

Sam Rose

Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team Leader

Don Gobbett

Chair, Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site Steering Group.

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