Four working groups, chaired by members of the local community and
involving both volunteers from the community and officers from the
ICZMI partner organisations, were set up at the first
Alde & Ore Futures community conference,
held in September 2009, to look at four topic areas in order to
find out what matters most to people living and working in and
around the estuary.
A fifth group, the Artist's Futures Group, was set up for
members of the creative community who are live, work or are
inspired by the area.
Each topic area working group met to explore their issues and to
make recommendations on what would make a difference for the
area.
A
second community conference held in March 2010
enabled the topic area working groups to report back on their work
identifying the issues and possible solutions.
Topic areas
- Robust communities - looking at the impact of
long term challenges to local communities and incorporating the
work of the Local Strategic Partnership.
- Business - identifying and developing
solutions to any physical infrastructure at risk and on the wider
economy (for example, tourism, arts and creative sector, etc) of
future changes to the area.
- Farming, agriculture and aquaculture - working
with farming and agriculture interests who own or rent land,
especially that which is concerned by flooding or erosion, directly
or indirectly, as well as fishing and shell fish interests who are
dependent on the estuary.
- Environment and recreation - covering
wildlife, landscape, historic environment, navigation and access
issues; understanding the practical implications and legal
obligations of organisations within the area and to make specific
proposals as to how to how to take advantage of this. The new
coastal access legislation needs to be taken into account as well
as any potential changes to access (including navigation) of the
estuary.
- Artist’s Futures - enabling the creative
community who live, work or are inspired by the area to have an
opportunity of bringing their views and expertise into the wider
debate about the future of the area.
Suffolk Coast Futures is a partnership involving:
