Welcome to the North East SMP2 website...

A Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) exists to promote good and prudent management of the coastline. The overall aim of the SMP is to set out a plan for a 100 year period indicating how our coastline should be managed, taking into account the wider implications on the neighbouring coastline and the environment.

It provides a large-scale assessment of the risks associated with coastal processes and presents a policy framework to reduce these risks to people and the developed, historic and natural environment in a sustainable manner into the 22nd century.

The three existing SMPs cover an area of coastline extending from the Tyne to Flamborough Head, a distance of approximately 150km.

Read the Final SMP2 document.

The coastline between the River Tyne and Flamborough Head was previously divided into three separate SMP’s dating from 1997. Due to changing pressures, and the ever evolving coastline it is necessary to review the SMP’s at regular intervals. This section of coast will now be reviewed as one SMP to enable a broader scale appreciation of the coastal processes to be achieved and to ensure continuous and coherent management policies result.

This website was last updated on 02 March 2007.