Seascape Character Supplementary Planning Guidance

This supplementary planning guidance explains the method, gives an overview of the seascape, sets out the cultural benefits and services, the forces for change and the key sensitivities. This Supplementary Planning Guidance was adopted at the National Park Authority meeting of the 20th of September 2023.


 

The supplementary planning guidance should also be read in conjunction with the National Park Management Plan and with other guidance and baseline information including the National Park Authority’s Landscape Character Assessment (2011), rolled over for Local Development Plan 2. It should also be read in conjunction with the Policies of Pembrokeshire County Council’s adopted Local Development Plan (LDP 1), as referred to in paragraph 1.1.

 

Seascape Character Supplementary Planning Guidance

 

 

Figures

Figure 1 Study area
Figure 2 Bathymetry and topography
Figure 3a Geology and Seabed Geology
Figure 3b Figure 3b: Geology and Seabed Sediments
Figure 4 Wave climate
Figure 5 Intervisibility of land with sea
Figure 6 Landscape character and regional seascape character units
Figure 7 Biodiversity and Geological designations
Figure 8 Heritage
Figure 9 Fishing
Figure 10 Recreational activity- marine
Figure 11 Recreational activity- coast
Figure 12 Access
Figure 13 Commercial and military activities
Figure 14 Seascape Character Types
Figure 15 Seascape Character Areas

 

Seascape Character Areas 1 to 10

SCA1 Teifi Estuary
SCA2 Cardigan Island to Cemaes Head
SCA3 Pen y Afr to Pen y Bal
SCA4 Newport Bay
SCA5 Dinas Island
SCA6 Fishguard Bay East
SCA7 Fishguard & Goodwick including Fishguard Harbour and the Quayside at Lower Town
SCA8 North open sea
SCA9 Newport and Fishguard outer sand bar
SCA10 Crincoed Point and Strumble Head

Seascape Areas 11 to 20

SCA11 Strumble Head to Penbwchdy
SCA12 Strumble Head deep water
SCA13 Penbwchdy to Penllechwen
SCA14 Western sand and gravel bar
SCA15 St Davids Head
SCA16 Whitesands Bay
SCA17 Ramsey Sound
SCA18 Ramsey Island coastal waters
SCA19 Bishop and Clerks
SCA20 St Brides Bay coastal waters north

 

 

Seascape Areas 21 to 30

SCA21 St Brides Bay coastal waters east
SCA22 St Brides Bay coastal waters south Borough Head
SCA23 St Brides Bay coastal waters south Nab Head
SCA24 St Brides Bay
SCA25 Skomer Island and Marloes peninsula
SCA26 Skokholm and Gateholm coastal waters
SCA27 Grassholm and the Smalls
SCA28 West open sea
SCA29 Southern inshore waters
SCA30 Southern offshore waters

Seascape Areas 31 to 40

SCA31 Outer Milford Haven
SCA32 Inner Milford Haven
SCA33 Daugleddau
SCA34 Freshwater West
SCA35 Castlemartin coastal waters
SCA36 Stackpole coastal waters
SCA37 Freshwater East and Manorbier
SCA38 Lydstep Haven coastal waters
SCA39 Tenby and Caldey Island
SCA40 Carmarthen Bay west

Seascape Areas 41 to 44

SCA41 Carmarthen Bay north – Pendine
SCA42 Carmarthen Bay
SCA43 Bristol Channel offshore
SCA44 Western offshore


 

 

St Brides Haven in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park