River basin management plans, updated 2022: summary programmes of measures

A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.

• 1. Introduction

  This section describes the constituent parts of the programmes of measures.

• 2. How the summary programmes of measures were developed

  This section describes how the summary programmes of measures were developed.

• 3. Measures to achieve the environmental objectives

  This section summarises the measures to achieve each of the main sets of environmental objectives for water bodies and protected areas set out in the plans.

• 4. Programmes of measures for each sector

  This section summarises the measures for each of the main sectors. Please note that the summaries do not provide an exhaustive list of all the measures relevant to each sector.

• 5. Topic action plans

  This section contains topic action plans which provide an alternative presentation of the summary programme of measure.

• 6. Mechanisms

  This section describes and links to the programme of measures: mechanisms summary and ‘challenges for the water environment’ documents.

• 7. River basin district summaries

  This section describes and links to the summary of measures for each river basin district.

• 8. Measures in catchment partnership pages

  This section describes the catchment partnership pages, and links to catchment data explorer.

• 9. Potential new measures

  This section describes and links to the potential additional programmes of measures.

• 10. Progress on implementing measures

  This section describes and links to the river basin planning progress report.