Consultation on Coastal Change Policy

Coastal Erosion Team
Defra
Area 2D Ergon
House Horsferry Road
London
SW1P 2AL

Telephone: 020 7238 1236
Website: www.defra.gov.uk
Email: coastal.change@defra.gsi.gov.uk

15 June 2008

Dear Consultee

Consultation on Coastal Change Policy

1. I am writing to invite views on our new coastal change consultation which looks at how coastal communities can successfully adapt to the impact of coastal change.  The consultation also provides details of a new coastal change pathfinder programme that we are intending to establish.  Bids are invited from coastal local authorities interested in becoming coastal change pathfinders.  Pathfinders would be able to explore some of the ideas and approaches set out in the consultation.  A new coastal change fund of up to £11 million is available to support their work.  

2. This consultation is a key part of the Government’s wider programme of activity to support communities in adapting to flood and coastal erosion risk.  It reflects the commitment, made in the Government’s Making Space for Water Strategy, to effective management of flood and erosion risk in a sustainable manner which is climate change proofed. 

3. The following documents may be found on Defra’s website (www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/coastal-change/):

  • Coastal change policy consultation document
  • Coastal Change Fund Impact Assessment
  • Coastal erosion assistance package Impact Assessment
  • List of consultees

4. We welcome your views and comments on the proposals. If you wish to obtain a hard copy of this consultation, please write or e-mail using the addresses below, or you can contact us on the telephone number above.

Responses

5. Please send responses to either:

Paul Barrett
Coastal Erosion Team
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Area 2D, Ergon House, Horsferry Road, London. SW1P 2AL.

Or email: coastal.change@defra.gsi.gov.uk

6. Responses should be received by 25 September 2009.

Consultation Criteria

7. This consultation is in line with the Code of practice on Consultations. This can be found at: http://www.berr.gov.uk/bre/

8. When this consultation ends, we intend to put a copy of the responses in the Defra library at Ergon House, London. This is so that the public can see them.  Also, members of the public may ask for a copy of responses under freedom of information legislation.

9. If you do not want your response - including your name, contact details and any other personal information – to be publicly available, please say so clearly in writing when you send your response to the consultation.  Please note, if your computer automatically includes a confidentiality disclaimer, that won’t count as a confidentiality request.

10. Please explain why you need to keep details confidential.  We will take your reasons into account if someone asks for this information under freedom of information legislation. But, because of the law, we cannot promise that we will always be able to keep those details confidential.   We will summarise all responses and place this summary on our website at www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/ .  This summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded but not people’s personal names, addresses or other contact details. 

11. To see consultation responses and summaries, please contact the library at:

Defra
Information Resource Centre
Lower Ground Floor
Ergon House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

Telephone: 020-7238-6575
Email:  defra.library@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Please give the library 24 hours’ notice.  There is a charge for photocopying and postage.

12. If you have any comments or complaints about the consultation process, please address them to Marjorie Addo, Defra’s Consultation Co-ordinator, Area 7C Nobel House,17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR, or email consultation.coordinator@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

13. Thank you for your help in this matter. If you have any queries please contact us as above.

 

Yours Faithfully

Paul Barrett

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

 

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