East Riding Local Plan Update

Local Plan HRA: Humber Estuary Recreational Pressure

  1. ERYC Local Plan Update
  • Adopted April 2016
  • Undergoing review

Key Changes

  • New Plan Period 2020 - 2039
  • Reduced annual housing delivery from 1400 to 1100
  • Avoiding Flood Risk in Goole with a new urban extension in Howden
  • A handful of new sites

ERYC Local Plan Adopted vs Update

Local Plan Update Allocation Status

Local Plan HRA

  • Local Plan Update HRA screening could not rule out LSE from residential & tourism development in-combination.
  • Appropriate Assessment started in 2020.

Survey Outputs

  • Local Plan HRA AA
  • In 2021 ERYC Updated FootPrint's 2012 Survey Data (North Bank Only)

Survey Outputs

Survey data identified an 11.5km (75th percentile of ERYC day trip visitors) zone of influence for recreation pressure on the Humber Estuary.

Survey Outputs

The zones of influence for individual survey locations provides a logical assessment of impact.

Spurn - national catchment

Hessle & Paull - Hull's conurbation

Faxfleet & Stone Creek - Local dog walkers and few individuals from further afield

Survey Outputs

Also reflected in tally counts

Spurn - national catchment

Hessle & Paull - Hull's conurbation

Faxfleet & Stone Creek - Local dog walkers and few individuals from further afield

Survey Outputs

  • ERYC Visitor Activities

Survey Outputs

Key Survey Point Activities

  • Dog walking
  • Walking
  • Bird watching (Spurn)

Allocation Comparison-Completions

*DRAFT* Strategic Access Management & Mitigation Strategy (SAMMs)

  • Provide a strategic Estuary approach to RP mitigation.
  • Initially covering ERYC but scalable for others to add to.
  • Sat with Humber Nature Partnership to allow shared governance of Estuary wide measures.
  • Delivered through Local Plan Policy & Supplementary Planning Guidance.

*DRAFT* Aims

  • Raise awareness of disturbance
  • Promote a Code of Conduct for dog walkers
  • Provide volunteering opportunities (Dog Rangers?)
  • Educate
  • Enforce
  • Monitor (Visitors & Habitats)

DRAFT Deliverables

Communications & Marketing

  • Dog walking initiatives Online & Public Events
  • Operation Seabird
  • Educational material
  • (Sustrans Y.Wolds Way walking the Riding etc)

DRAFT Deliverables

Site Specific Visitor Management Projects

  • Signage
  • Informative Boards
  • Minor Footpath improvements
  • Fencing/Landscaping

DRAFT Deliverables

Monitoring Access Management Assessments

  • Signage audit
  • Site specific visitor monitoring
  • Key habitat mapping

DRAFT Deliverables

Part time facilitating officer

  • Fund management
  • Communication & marketing
  • Site specific visitor management
  • Monitoring

DRAFT Deliverables

Indicative Costings

DRAFT Deliverables

Indicative Costings

DRAFT Deliverables

DRAFT Deliverables

Discussion

  • First thoughts on draft approach
  • Deliverability
  • Scale/Scalability
  • Pressures
  • Mitigation (What works?)

Next step?