6 ACTION PLAN 6.1 Coastal risk management activities The Action Plan for the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Shoreline Management Plan review provides the basis for taking forward the intent of management which is discussed and developed through Chapter 4 - and summarised through the preferred policy choices set out in Chapter 5. The SMP guidance states that the purpose of the Action Plan is to summarise the actions that are required before the next review of the SMP however in reality the Action Plan is looking much further into the future in order to provide guidance on how the overall management intent for 100 years may be taken forward. For Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly SMP the Action Plan is a critical element, because there are various conditional policies for later epochs which need to be more firmly established in the future based on monitoring and investigation. The Action Plan can set the framework for an on-going shoreline management process in the coming years, with SMP3 in 5 to 10 years time as the next important milestone. This chapter therefore attempts to capture all intended actions necessary, on a policy unit by policy unit basis, to deliver the objectives at a local level. It should also help to prioritise FCRM medium and long-term planning budget lines. A number of the actions are representative of on-going commitments across the SMP area (for example to South West Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme). There are also actions that are representative of wide-scale intent of management, for example in relation to gaining a better understanding of the roles played by the various harbours and breakwaters located around the coast in terms of coast protection and sea defence. Additionally, gaining a better understanding of the influence of wave driven flooding and damage around the coastline at particular locations (as opposed to the derivation of flood risks from still water flooding) is identified as a key issue for this SMP coastline, and one that makes it fairly unique within England and Wales. At a local level, many of the actions relate to the monitoring of cliffs, dunes and beaches. This provides on-going surveillance on the actual nature of morphological change at individual sites, where the preferred policies are based on the perceived pressure on the frontage due to sea level rise, increased erosion rates and so forth. Linked into this type of action, there are some discrete areas where it is felt that more intrusive studies such as geotechnical investigations would provide valuable insight into the longer-term sustainability of certain coastal settlements. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 1 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 The CSG have approved the Action Plan based on the Preferred Plan. The Action Plan lists the identified measures necessary to implement the intent of management identified by the Preferred Plan. It identifies partners and sources of funding as well as prioritising the actions into Low, Medium and High priorities. Through signing up to the Action Plan, each CSG partner is demonstrating a commitment of intent to undertake the actions, as priorities allow and funding permits. A wide range of sources of funding have been considered in drawing up the Action Plan, which include Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Risk Management funding, Defra Grant in Aid funding, Plymouth Coastal Observatory, National Trust, English Heritage, and landowners such as private developers, the Duchy of Cornwall and Wildlife Trust. While the Action Plan does not commit these organisations to providing funding, it does document the wide range of interests that could be involved with investing in the sustainable management of the coastline. Furthermore the potential sources of funding listed in the Action Plan are not exhaustive. All funding routes should be investigated further as the Action Plan is implemented. Table 6.1 is tabulated out into the 46 Management Areas. Within each of the 46 MAs, the required actions to implement the preferred plan are then set out on a Policy Unit basis. Table 6.2 sets out an additional set of CFMP actions for a discrete number of Policy Units – these are derived from the relevant CFMPs (Tamar, East Cornwall and West Cornwall). Table 6.2 identifies those CFMP policies and actions at a number of locations which relate to coastal risk management activities and provides a comparison with the SMP actions identified in Table 6.1, to ensure no conflicts are present between the two plans. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 2 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 TABLE 6.1 COASTAL RISK MANAGEMENT ACTIONS Rame Head to Hartland Point SMP2 POLICY POLICY EPOCH EPOCH EPOCH ACTIONS INDICATIVE OBJECTIVES MONITORING PARTNERS PRIORITY FUNDING UNIT 1 2 3 TIMESCALE INDICATORS Wave dominated Short term Quantify wave EA, CC, PCO High FCRM flooding strategy, action, wave-set GiA including up, wave run-up monitoring and wind set-up provision. risks along the South West coast. Assess and justify wave monitoring SMP WIDE Various Various Various network. Determine wave risk assessment tool. Determine number of properties at risk. Revise Flood Map Inform LDF Identify locations Short term Secure additional A number of CC, EA, NE, EH, High Defra requiring funding to assist priority Defra, National Pathfinder community with developing an locations / Trust, Duchy, + adaptation and appropriate communities other key Various Various Various SMP WIDE consider for the adaptation strategy recommended stakeholders application of at a community / and taken Defra’s Pathfinder local level forward approach Digitise and Short term Provide long term CC, PCO, EA Medium FCRM orthorectify 1947 cliff recession data. GiA SMP WIDE Various Various Various aerial photographs held by Cornwall Council Undertake Short term Establish sea Individual CC, EA, Harbour High FCRM assessment of defence and coast action plans or Commissioners GiA Various Various Various SMP WIDE harbour breakwater protection roles of maintenance structures. breakwaters and programmes Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 3 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 Rame Head to Hartland Point SMP2 POLICY POLICY EPOCH EPOCH EPOCH ACTIONS INDICATIVE OBJECTIVES MONITORING PARTNERS PRIORITY FUNDING UNIT 1 2 3 TIMESCALE INDICATORS other harbour established for structures primary sites. Assessment of all Short term Establish viability of Individual CC, Highways High CC locally important realignment or action plans SMP WIDE Various Various Various road routes at risk defence, identify for specific from erosion and/or priority routes road sections. flooding. Assessment of Short term Establish options CC, Coast Path Medium CC Coast Path and for re-routing, Team, EH Various Various Various SMP WIDE priority sections at identify priority risk. sections Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 4 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 PDZ1 MA01 RAME HEAD TO DOWNDERRY SMP2 POLICY POLICY UNIT EPOCH EPOCH EPOCH ACTIONS INDICATIVE OBJECTIVES MONITORING PARTNERS PRIORITY FUNDING 1 2 3 TIMESCALE INDICATORS Undefended 1.1 cliffs and NAI NAI NAI beach Monitoring of erosion rates Short term Confirm PCO Medium FCRM timescale and GiA scale of MR Managed Realignment Medium to Manage erosion Number of CC, EA, Low FCRM scheme long term risks. property in English Gia, EH Property risk zone. Heritage relocated from Annual risk zone. Maintenance Maintenance costs. MR costs reduced. 1.2 Portwrinkle HTL MR Recording of historic harbour. Asset survey for Harbour Short term Determine Improved EA,CC, EH Low FCRM condition & understanding GiA coast protection relating to role of harbour objectives. structures. LDF to identify CCMA Short term Manage spatial CCMA CC Spatial High CC planning impacts identified in Planners, of MR Core Strategy EA Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 5 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 PDZ1 MA02 DOWNDERRY & SEATON SMP2 POLICY POLICY UNIT EPOCH EPOCH EPOCH ACTIONS INDICATIVE OBJECTIVES MONITORING PARTNERS PRIORITY FUNDING 1 2 3 TIMESCALE INDICATORS Monitoring of cliff erosion Short term Confirm erosion Improved PCO, CC, Low FCRM Downderry pressure. understanding EA GiA 2.1 NAI NAI NAI East Protect coast of erosion risk path Monitoring of erosion rates Short term Confirm PCO High FCRM timescale and GiA scale of MR Continued monitoring of Medium Surveillance of CC High CC local erosion in relation to term potential CC ‘Action Line’. increase in erosion rates along Downderry undefended sections. 2.2 (west) & HTL MR MR Managed Realignment Medium to Manage erosion Number of CC, EA, Low FCRM Seaton scheme long term risks. property in Gia, CC Property risk zone. relocated from Annual risk zone. Maintenance Maintenance costs. costs reduced. LDF to identify CCMA Short term Manage spatial CCMA CC Spatial High CC (including PU 2.3) planning impacts identified in Planners, of MR Core Strategy EA Road realignment scheme Short term Reduce flood Property at EA, Medium FCRM risk. risk of Cornwall GiA Reduce coastal flooding. Highways Seaton squeeze 2.3 MR NAI NAI pressure. Beach Reduce water quality impacts from tide-locking of channel LDF to identify CCMA Short term Manage spatial CCMA CC Spatial High CC (including PU 2.2) planning impacts identified in Planners, of MR Core Strategy EA Cornwall and Isles of Scilly SMP2 6 Final Report Chapter 6 - Action Plan February 2011 PDZ1 MA02 DOWNDERRY & SEATON SMP2 POLICY POLICY UNIT EPOCH EPOCH EPOCH ACTIONS INDICATIVE OBJECTIVES MONITORING PARTNERS PRIORITY FUNDING 1 2 3 TIMESCALE