Working with others, the Coastal Group has been pulling together plans for how we think the North West England and North Wales coast should be managed over the next 100 years. We need your views and knowledge to make sure that the final plan sets out the right course of action for people, homes, business and the environment.

The consultation period has now ended. However, these documents will remain available until the final SMP2 is published.

Draft Shoreline Management Plan 2 - Main Document

This main document gives you some overarching information about shoreline management planning, explains the various environmental assessments that have been carried out in producing the draft SMP2, gives a brief overview of the SMP2, sets out some general actions and explains more about the policy summaries.

Main SMP2 Draft document (1.7MB Word)

Glossary

The glossary helps to explain some of the technical terms used in the SMP2 main document and associated appendices.

Glossary (74KB Word)

Find out more about where you live

The following policy summaries group together specific areas and give more detailed information about where you live including:

• what policies have been suggested for those areas
• the predicted implications of putting those policies into practise
• what actions will be needed to carry the proposed policies forward 
• maps of the area showing the policies

Great Orme to Little Orme (498KB Word)

Little Orme to Clwyd Estuary (591KB Word)

Clwyd Estuary (477KB Word)

Clwyd Estuary to Point of Ayr (464KB Word)

Dee Estuary (2.25MB Word)

North Wirral (505 KB Word)

Mersey Estuary (1.5MB Word)

Seaforth to River Alt (432KB Word)

Formby Dunes (2.48MB Word)

Sub-cell 11b: Southport Pier to Rossall Point (including the Douglas and Ribble Estuaries)

Ribble Estuary  (1.89MB Word)

St Annes to Rossall Point (742KB Word)

Sub-cell 11c: Rossall Point to Haverigg (including the Wyre, Lune, Kent, Leven and Duddon Estuaries)

Fleetwood and Wyre Estuary (514KB Word)

Knott End to Glasson Dock (602KB Word)

Lune Estuary (387KB Word)

Sunderland Village to Potts Corner (517KB Word)

Potts Corner to Heysham (512KB Word)

Heysham to Hest Bank (526KB Word)

Hest Bank to Heald Brow (569KB Word)

Heald Brow to Humphrey Head (0.99MB Word)

Kent Estuary (531KB Word)

Humphrey Head to Cark (624KB Word)

Outer Leven Estuary (561KB Word)

Leven Estuary (368KB Word)

Bardsea to Piel Island (549KB Word)

Walney Island (483KB Word)

Walney Channel (531KB Word)

Duddon Estuary (622KB Word)

Sub-cell 11d: Haverigg to St. Bee's Head (including the Ravenglass Estuary complex)

Haverigg to Selker (427KB Word)

Selker to Eskmeals (430KB Word)

Ravenglass Estuary Complex (477KB Word)

Drigg Point to Seascale (411KB Word)

Seascale to St Bees (409KB Word)

St Bees (360KB Word)

St Bees Head (350KB Word)

Sub-cell 11e: St. Bee's Head to the Scottish Border (including Moricambe Bay and the Eden Estuary)

St Bees Head to Whitehaven (285KB Word)

Whitehaven to Workington (430KB Word)

Workington to Maryport (393 KB Word)

Maryport to Dubmill Point (390KB Word)

Dubmill Point to Silloth (460KB Word)

Silloth to Grune (496KB Word)

Moricambe Bay (604KB Word)

Cardurnock to the Scottish Border (1.06MB Word)

Appendices

There are also extensive appendices which detail the processes that we have been through to produce the draft SMP2. These are available here