The Solent Forum

Working in partnership for the future

Greater Solent Project Tracker

The Environment Agency and Natural England have developed a Project reference ‘tool’ which can be used by external organisations to see what projects are happening in the Solent & Sussex catchments. The project list also includes partners’ project and those ‘under development’. They have included marine and terrestrial projects because of the links between land and sea e.g. diffuse pollution flows via the groundwater or rivers to the sea, migratory fish use freshwater and marine habitats during their life cycle, etc – this is an example of taking an integrated and ‘whole scape’ approach to catchment management (Source to Sea/cross catchments). The feedback from partners has been really positive – they think it’s a really useful source of information to help them identify and plan work.

There are multiple benefits to this approach, through raising awareness of important issues and maximising opportunities to work collaboratively. In doing so, it can help attract funding and partners, add credibility, open up funding opportunities, and enable the sharing of expertise and knowledge. This in turn should lead to improved knowledge or improvements for people and wildlife. 

Project Name

Lead Organisation
Management Catchment/Location
Water Body Type 
Solent Area
 

Integrating Diverse Values into Marine Management

Uni of Portsmouth and Partners

Portsmouth a test study site

Marine

Life on the Edge

RSPB

Solent (one of sites)

Marine

Three Harbours

Southern Water/RSPB

Langstone, Chichester and Pagham Harbours

Marine

Solent Oyster Restoration 

Blue Marine

Solent 

Marine

Beneficial Use of Dredgings

Solent Forum

Solent

Marine

Natural Environment Group Projects

Solent Forum

Solent

Coastal/marine

Secrets of the Solent

Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust

Solent 

Marine

Sea the Value - Valuing Marine Biodiversity for use in Decision Making

Portsmouth University/Plymouth University

Solent (one of two field sites)

Marine

Marker Point, Thorney Island - Regional Habitat Compensation Programme 

Environment Agency

Chichester Harbour

Marine

Hook Lake, Warsash, Regional Habitat Compensation Programme - Hook Lake Coastal Management Study — Coastal Partners

Coastal Partners

Southampton Water

Marine

Beauty of the Beach campaign

Southern Water

South East Beaches 

Marine

Mapping marine INNS in N2K sites in Solent

Natural England 

Solent 

Marine

Clean Solent Shores and Seas (Litter and water quality)

Solent Forum

Solent

Marine

Rapid Nutrient Reduction in Transitional Waters (RaNTrans) 

University of Portsmouth 

Langstone Harbour and Poole Harbour

Marine

Bird Aware Solent

Bird Aware

Solent

Marine

Southern IFCA Fisheries Research

Southern IFCA

Southampton Water, Test and Itchen, Portsmouth and Langstone

Marine

Solent Scallop/Bivalve/Oyster Surveys

Southern IFCA

Solent

Marine

Southern IFCA Fish Monitoring

Southern IFCA

Southern IFC District 

Marine

Reducing and Mitigating Erosion and Disturbance Impacts Effecting the Seabed (ReMEDIES) 

Natural England 

Solent

Marine

A Historical Investigation of Solent Saltmarsh as Key Coastal Nursery Habitat Areas

Natural England 

Solent

Marine

Outfall Safari

Environment Agency 

East Solent

Marine

IW-Medina, Thorness Bay and Western Yar estuary sediment management and saltmarsh restoration

IoW Council

Isle of Wight

River

Total Ecosystem Management of Intertidal Habitats (TEMITH)

University of Portsmouth 

Solent

Marine

Solent Plastics Pollution hub as part of the Preventing Plastic Pollution project

Solent Forum

Solent and catchments

River and Marine

Marineff Interreg

Southampton University

IOW, Hamble and other sites

Marine

Solent Seascape Project

Blue Marine Foundation

Solent

Marine

Solent sea defence ecology enhancements

Coastal Partners

East Hampshire

Marine

Chessel Bay Nurdle clean up

EA, SCC, UoS, Friends of Chessel Bay

Itchen Estuary

Marine

River Itchen Flood Alleviation Scheme

Environment Agency

Itchen Estuary

Marine

Hurst to Lymington scheme

Environment Agency

Hurst to Lymington

Marine

University of Portsmouth Research Portal

UoP

 

 

Seagrass Ocean Rescue

WWF

IOW

Marine

Solent Forum - Solent Seagrass Restoration

HIOWWT

Solent

Marine

New Forest Blue Horizon 2021 to 2026

Freshwater Habitats Trust

New Forest

River

New Forest Wilder for Water

Freshwater Habitats Trust

New Forest

River

Watercress & Winterbournes

Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust

Test and Itchen

River

Unflushables campaign

Southern Water

Treasure the Tanner's Brook

Environment Agency 

Test and Itchen

River

Freshwater Habitats Trust Projects

Freshwater Habitat Trust

UK

River

Island Rivers Priority Projects

Isle of Wight

River

Green Halo Partnership

New Forest NPA

New Forest

Terrestrial/Coast

Sussex Area

 

 

 

Clean Seas Please

Rother Voluntary Action Group

Sussex coastline 

Marine

Wild Coast Sussex

MCS

sussex coastline 

Marine

Help Our Kelp 

Sussex Wildlife Trust 

Sussex coastline 

Marine

Return of the Terns

Friends of Chichester Harbour

Chichester Harbour

Marine

Adur saltmarsh restoration

Adur & Worthing DC

Adur Estuary 

Marine

Chichester Harbour Protection & Recovery of Nature

Chichester Harbour Conservancy

Chichester Harbour 

Marine

Itchenor BUDS/BESE trial

Chichester Harbour Conservancy

Chichester Harbour

Marine

RedPol

Chichester Harbour Conservancy

Chichester Harbour

Marine

Eastbourne & Pevensey Bay Coastal Defences Project 

EA

Sussex Coastline

Marine

Manhood Peninsular Partnership

Chichester DC

Sussex Coastline

Marine

Crustaceans, Habitat And Sediment Movement (CHASM)

Manhood Peninsular

Chichester and Solent

Marine

Sussex Flow Inititaive

Sussex Wildlife Trust/EA

 Chichester

River

Pevensey Bay to Eastbourne Coastal Management Scheme (pevenseyandeastbournecoast.co.uk)

EA

East Sussex

Marine

Weald to Waves

Sussex Wildlife Trust

Arun Estuary and Sussex Coastline

River and Marine