Guidance: Irish Sea marine area: index map and site packages

Updated: Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary SPA added. West of Walney MCZ now at formal stage.

Find out if your activity, proposal or area of responsibility has a potential impact on the species and habitats in the marine protected areas in the Irish Sea.

Advice packages are listed alphabetically. Packages marked ‘awaiting update’ on the map have not been updated on the Designated Sites System but advice may still exist. These sites are not listed here, but you can search for all sites on the Designated Sites View site search. This will include links to any existing advice.

Advice packages in the Irish Sea

Cumbria Coast Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0005) Formal

Drigg Coast Special Area of Conservation (UK0013031) Formal

Mersey Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9005131) Formal

Mersey Narrows and North Wirral Foreshore Special Protection Area (UK9020287) Formal

Morecambe Bay Special Area of Conservation (UK0013027) Formal

Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9020326) Draft

Ribble and Alt Estuaries Special Protection Area (UK9005103) Formal

Shell Flat and Lune Deep Special Area of Conservation (UK0030376) Draft

West of Walney Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0045) Formal




Guidance: Western Channel and Celtic Sea marine area: index map and site packages

Updated: Map updated.

Find out if your activity, proposal or area of responsibility has a potential impact on the species and habitats in the marine protected areas in the Western Channel and Celtic Sea.

Advice packages are listed alphabetically. Packages marked ‘awaiting update’ on the map have not been updated on the Designated Sites System but advice may still exist. These sites are not listed here, but you can search for all sites on the Designated Sites View site search. This will include links to any existing advice.

Advice packages in the Western Channel and Celtic Sea

Fal and Helford Special Area of Conservation (UK0013112) Formal

Hartland Point to Tintagel Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0034) Draft

Isles of Scilly: Bishop to Crim Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-01) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Bristows to the Stones Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-02) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Gilstone to Gorregan Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-03) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Hanjague to Deep Ledge Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-04) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Higher Town Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-05) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Lower Ridge to Innisvouls Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-06) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Men a Vaur to White Island Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-07) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Peninnis to Dry Ledge Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-08) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Plympton to Spanish Ledge Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-09) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Smith Sound Tide Swept Channel Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0008-10) Formal

Isles of Scilly: Tean Marine Conservation Zone(UKMCZ0008-11) Formal

Land’s End and Cape Bank Special Area of Conservation (UK0030375) Formal

Lundy Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0010) Formal

Lundy Special Area of Conservation (UK0013114) Formal

Mounts Bay Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0036) Draft

Padstow Bay and Surrounds Marine Conservation Zone(UKMCZ0012) Formal

Plymouth Sound and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation (UK0013111) Formal

Skerries Bank and Surrounds Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0015) Draft

Start Point to Plymouth Sound and Eddystone Special Area of Conservation (UK0030373) Formal

Tamar Estuaries Complex Special Protection Area (UK9010141) Formal

Tamar Estuary Sites Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0016) Formal

The Manacles Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0018) Formal

Whitsand and Looe Bay Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0021) Draft




Guidance: Eastern Channel marine area: index map and site packages

Updated: Changed status of Chichester and Langstone Harbours / South Wight Maritime from ‘draft’ to ‘formal’. Repointed link for South Dorset to Designated Sites System. Designation of Lyme Bay and Torbay / Studland to Portland changed from SCI to SAC. New draft sites Chesil and the Fleet / Chesil Beach and The Fleet / Solent and Isle of Wight Lagoons added. Map updated.

Find out if your activity, proposal or area of responsibility has a potential impact on the species and habitats in the marine protected areas in the Eastern Channel.

Advice packages are listed alphabetically. Packages marked ‘awaiting update’ on the map have not been updated on the Designated Sites System but advice may still exist. These sites are not listed here, but you can search for all sites on the Designated Sites View site search. This will include links to any existing advice.

Advice packages in the Eastern Channel

Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0002) Formal

Chesil and the Fleet Special Area of Conservation (UK0017076) Draft

Chesil Beach and the Fleet Special Protection Area (UK9010091) Draft

Chesil Beach and Stennis Ledges Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0004) Formal

Chichester and Langstone Harbours Special Protection Area (UK9011011) Formal

Exe Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9010081) Formal

Folkestone Pomerania Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0006) Formal

Kingmere Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0009) Formal

Lyme Bay and Torbay Special Area of Conservation (UK0030372) Formal

Pagham Harbour Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0013) Formal

Pagham Harbour Special Protection Area (UK9012041) Formal

Poole Harbour Special Protection Area (UK9010111) Draft

Poole Rocks Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0014) Formal

Portsmouth Harbour Special Protection Area (UK9011051) Formal

Solent and Isle of Wight Lagoons Special Area of Conservation (UK0017073) Draft

Solent and Southampton Water Special Protection Area (UK9011061) Draft

Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation (UK0030059) Formal

South Dorset Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0022) Draft

South Wight Maritime Special Area of Conservation (UK0030061) Formal

Studland to Portland Special Area of Conservation (UK0030382) Draft

Torbay Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0019) Draft




Guidance: Southern North Sea marine area: index map and site packages

Updated: New sites added: Benacre to Easton Bavents Lagoons SAC, Breydon Water SPA, Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1) SPA and Thanet Coast SAC.

Find out if your activity, proposal or area of responsibility has a potential impact on the species and habitats in the marine protected areas in the Southern North Sea.

Advice packages are listed alphabetically. Packages marked ‘awaiting update’ on the map have not been updated on the Designated Sites System but advice may still exist. These sites are not listed here, but you can search for all sites on the Designated Sites View site search. This will include links to any existing advice.

Advice packages in the Southern North Sea

Alde, Ore and Butley Estuaries Special Area of Conservation (UK0030076) Formal

Alde Ore Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9009112) Formal

Benacre to Easton Bavents Lagoons Special Area of Conservation (UK0013104) Draft

Benfleet and Southend Marshes Special Protection Area (UK9009171) Formal

Blackwater, Crouch, Roach and Colne Estuaries Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0003) Formal

Blackwater Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 4) Special Protection Area (UK9009245) Formal

Breydon Water Special Protection Area (UK9009181) Draft

Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0031) Draft

Deben Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9009261) Draft

Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1) Special Protection Area (UK9009242) Draft

Essex Estuaries Special Area of Conservation (UK0013690) Formal

Foulness (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 5) Special Protection Area (UK9009246) Draft

Gibraltar Point Special Protection Area (UK9008022) Formal

Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton Special Area of Conservation (UK0030369) Formal

Holderness Inshore Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0035) Draft

Humber Estuary Special Area of Conservation (UK0030170) Draft

Humber Estuary Special Protection Area (UK9006111) Draft

Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge Special Area of Conservation (UK0030370) Formal

Margate and Long Sands Special Area of Conservation (UK0030371) Formal

Medway Estuary and Marshes Special Protection Area (UK9012031) Formal

Medway Estuary Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0011) Formal

North Norfolk Coast Special Area of Conservation (UK0019838) Formal

North Norfolk Coast Special Protection Area (UK9009031) Formal

Orfordness – Shingle Street Special Area of Conservation (UK0014780) Formal

Stour and Orwell Estuaries Special Protection Area (UK9009121) Draft

Thames Estuary and Marshes Special Protection Area (UK9012021) Formal

Thanet Coast Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0017) Formal

Thanet Coast Special Area of Conservation (UK0013107) Draft

The Swale Special Protection Area (UK9012011) Formal

The Swale Estuary Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0041) Formal

The Wash and North Norfolk Coast Special Area of Conservation (UK0017075) Formal

The Wash Special Protection Area (UK9008021) Formal




Guidance: Northern North Sea marine area: index map and site packages

Updated: New sites added: Aln Estuary MCZ, Coquet to St Mary’s MCZ and Farne Islands SPA. Northumberland Marine SPA and Northumbria Coast SPA now at formal stage.

Find out if your activity, proposal or area of responsibility has a potential impact on the species and habitats in the marine protected areas in the Northern North Sea.

Advice packages are listed alphabetically. Packages marked ‘awaiting update’ on the map have not been updated on the Designated Sites System but advice may still exist. These sites are not listed here, but you can search for all sites on the Designated Sites View site search. This will include links to any existing advice.

Advice packages in the Northern North Sea

Aln Estuary Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0001) Draft

Coquet Island Special Protection Area (UK9006031) Draft

Coquet to St Mary’s Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0030) Draft

Farne Islands Special Protection Area (UK9006021) Draft

Flamborough Head Special Area of Conservation (UK0013036) Draft

Lindisfarne Special Protection Area (UK9006011) Draft

Northumberland Marine Special Protection Area (UK9020325) Formal

Northumbria Coast Special Protection Area (UK9006131) Formal

Runswick Bay Marine Conservation Zone (UKMCZ0039) Draft

Tweed Estuary Special Area of Conservation (UK0030292) Formal