Port master plan guidance - consultation document
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Territorial scope of the guidance
- The purpose of master plans
- Which ports should produce master plans?
- Summary
- When should master plans be produced?
- How long will it take?
- Timetable
- Period of plans
- Content of plans
- Forecasts
- Infrastructure proposals
- Safeguarding, property and blight
- Commercial sensitivity
- Inland access
- Other social and economic impacts
- Safety and security
- Environmental impacts: overview
- Habitats
- Water pollution and the Water Framework Directive
- 'Local' emissions and 'cold ironing'
- 'Global' emissions, climate change and extreme weather events
- Noise
- Process
- Legal considerations
- Pre-consultation
- Exposure draft
- Main consultation
- Publication
- Follow-up
- Realism of assumptions
- Success of consultation procedures
- Effectiveness of implementation
- Overall evaluation
- Appendix
- Checklist for possible Master Plan contents
- Footnotes

