Consultation – Deben Estuary Partnership

Please complete this form to feedback on the Scoping Report for the revision of the Deben Estuary Management Plan, available online or via Word document.

Q1. Do you agree with the reasons identified for updating the Deben Estuary Management Plan and the purpose of the new document for guiding the future management of the Deben Estuary over the next 5 years? If not, please suggest any further changes needed.

Q2. Do you have any comments on the status of the Plan? Please identify any additional key guidance or documents that the Deben Estuary Management Plan should align with?

Q3. Do you agree with the extent of the area to be covered by the Deben Estuary Management Plan? Please identify any additional area that the Deben Estuary Management Plan should include.

Q4. When considering terrestrial and marine planning in the revised Deben Estuary Management Plan, what objectives and outcomes should be included in relation to planning?

Q5. Do you think that the likely impact of climate change should be considered? Please identify any areas where climate change may be of particular significance.

Q6. Do you agree with the proposal to include a new section about Natural Capital? If yes, what objectives and outcomes for Natural Capital should be included in the revised Deben Estuary Management Plan?

Q7. Do you consider that the existing vision for the Deben Estuary is still valid? If not, what changes need to be included in any revisions to the vision?

Q8. Do you consider that the current objective and outcomes for flood risk management are still valid? If not, what changes are needed?

Q9. Do you consider that the current objective and outcomes for landscape and heritage are still valid? If not, what changes are needed?

Q10. Do you consider that the current objective and outcomes for tranquillity are still valid and necessary? If not, what changes are needed?

Q11. Do you consider that the objectives and outcomes for the environment, biodiversity and geodiversity in the current Deben Estuary Management Plan are still valid and effective? Do you consider that the level of protection given to locally designated areas of biodiversity is appropriate and sustainable? If not, what changes are needed?

Q12. Do you consider that the current objective and outcomes for the management and restoration of saltmarsh are still valid, appropriate and deliverable?

Q13. Do you consider that the objective and outcomes for land and freshwater management in the current Deben Estuary Management Plan are still valid and adequate? If not, what changes are needed?

Q14. Do you consider that the outcomes for supporting a sustainable economy in the current Deben Estuary Management Plan are appropriate and go far enough? If changes are needed to ensure the future sustainability of any sector of the local, estuary economy what should they be?

Q15. Do you consider that the current objective and outcomes for access and recreation in the current Deben Estuary Management Plan will meet changing demand and patterns of use? If not, what changes are needed?

Q16. Do you consider that the current objective to limit and mitigate disturbance is appropriate? If not what changes or extra measures are needed?

Q17. Do you consider that the objective and outcome for Flood and Emergency Planning in the current Deben Estuary Management Plan is still valid? If not, what changes are needed?

Q18. Which issues should be included in an ongoing monitoring programme of the Deben Estuary?

Q19. Are you interested in participating in Citizen Science research to support the preparation, implementation and monitoring for the Deben Estuary Management Plan?

Q20. Are these appendices still relevant? Are there are any other guides that should be included in the Appendices in the updated Deben Estuary Management Plan?

Please submit your responses by 5pm 14-Aug 2021. If you would like to be kept up to date with the work of the Deben Estuary Partnership, and its progression of the revision of the Deben Estuary Management Plan, please provide your contact details (which we will only use for the purposes of updating you about the partnership and the plan):

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