Share your views on issues in the east marine plan areas

We are conducting further stakeholder engagement for the east marine plan areas.

Following the in-person Issues with Supporting Evidence events we conducted this November, we are hosting three online events, providing stakeholders further opportunity to contribute their perspectives.

Find out how you can get involved here.

Marine activity data

To search for activities or data in a specific area:

Select data you want to see from the list below, or by searching for layers using the search tool
Once added to the map, click the layer on the map to see further information
Click on ⓘ next to the layer name on the list below to see additional information about the layer
You can click on clear all button to deselect all selected layers
You can click collapse all button to minimise all open categories in the list

Administrative Boundaries
Aggregate Extraction
Dredging and Disposal
Energy
Environment
Fish, Fishing and Aquaculture
Marine Licencing Applications
Ports, Harbours and Shipping
Social, Cultural and Heritage
Subsea Cables
Tourism and Recreation

Search for policies

To search for a marine policy from a marine plan you can draw a shape to search for policies within a specified area.

You can also click on a marine plan area on the map to see all policies relevant to that marine plan area.

To see policies relevant to a whole marine plan area:

Click on "search by marine plan area"
Click on the relevant marine plan area on the map
All policies within this marine plan area will be displayed on the left-hand side
Click Clear policy search button, or the "bin" symbol at the top left of the map, to start again

To draw a shape:

Click start drawing on the map:
zoom or drag the map to your area of interest
start to draw a shape by clicking anywhere within the blue marine plan boundaries to create your first point
continue to draw the shape by clicking as many anchor points as needed
press ctrl+z to undo the last anchor point if needed
double click to complete the shape
The policies that apply within your shape will be displayed on the left-hand side
Policies will appear as spatially specific policies and plan area policies. Spatially specific policies only apply to the area in which you have drawn your shape, and plan area policies apply to the whole of the marine plan area in which you have drawn your shape
Click Clear policy search button, or the "bin" symbol at the top left of the map, to start again

Guidance

Use this service to find and view:

marine data on a map of the English marine area
information on marine licences relating to a specific area
policy information from the marine plans

How to use this service:

There are two ways to find information on the map. You can:

find the most recently published marine activities data
use the drawing tool to find and view marine policy information in the area you select or a wider marine plan area

Further guidance is available in the Explore Marine Plans Guidance Video.

This service only includes geographic and marine policy information in England. Use of data within this service is subject to copyright, please see dataset metadata for individual copyright statements.

You can also refer to the marine plans themselves to find policies and information related to your area of interest:

There is also further guidance and information on marine planning available here

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