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
Ouse Valley Climate Action	South Downs National Park	sussex coastline	River
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

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