Additional 14 weeks for Falmouth SPA consultation starts today

14 Apr 2014 03:54 PM

Natural England today announced an additional period of 14 weeks to the formal public consultation relating to the Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay potential Special Protection Area (pSPA). 

We are responding to feedback from stakeholders that it would be helpful to make the 2013 Vulnerability Assessment, which informed the Impact Assessment for the site, available to everyone to help inform contributions to the current consultation.

The Vulnerability Assessment identifies whether the pSPA bird species are at risk from activities currently taking place on the site (such as human activities). As a result of interest in the Impact Assessment for the pSPA, we recognise that making the Vulnerability Assessment more widely available will help all stakeholders and sea-users comment on the information in the Impact Assessment.

The following documents will be available to download from our website (link provided below) from 14 April 2014:

• Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay pSPA Vulnerability Assessment: (563kb) 

• Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay pSPA Evidence-base for the Vulnerability Assessment: (2.58mb) 

To note: the document entitled TIN 120 – Establishing Marine SPAs has been updated to reflect the revised process and is also available on the provided link.

The consultation on the Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay pSPA will now run until 21 July 2014 to allow additional time for stakeholders to give us their views on the designation. All previous representations submitted will still be considered as valid responses and will be submitted to Government.

However, if you feel the additional information provided in the Vulnerability Assessment documents would help modify a previously submitted response then please submit your amended/updated response by the 21 July 2014.

All consultation materials can be viewed here.