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

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