11 January 2010
CONSULTATION ON SEARCH AND RESCUE PROVISION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SOUTH WEST PENINSULA
What is the Consultation about?
This consultation considers the nature of the maritime-related public safety risks around the Southern Part of the South West Peninsula, the adequacy of the range of rescue services available to deal with them if the additional MCA boats at Hope Cove and Tamar are no longer available, and if you consider that a risk remains, how best that can be managed.
How to respond
The MCA would appreciate hearing your views on this issue.
The consultation period began on 11 January 2010 and will run for 12 weeks until 6 April 2010, please ensure that your response reaches us by that date.
Please send consultation responses to:
Research and Planning
Bay 3/20
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Spring Place
105 Commercial Road
Southampton
SO15 1EG
By email to: SWPConsultation@mcga.gov.uk
Fax: 023 8032 9105
When responding please state whether you are responding as an individual or representing the views of an organisation. If responding on behalf of an organisation please make it clear who the organisation represents, and where applicable, how the views of members were assembled.
The information you send us may need to be passed to colleagues within the MCA and Department for Transport. It may also be published in a summary of responses received in response to this consultation that may be made available on the MCA’s website www.mcga.gov.uk.
We will assume that you are content for us to do this, unless you specifically include a request to the contrary in the main text of your submission to us. If you are replying by e-mail, your consent overrides any confidentiality disclaimer that is generated by your organisation's IT system, unless you specifically include a request to the contrary in the main text of your submission to us.
Information, provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be published or disclosed in accordance with the access to information regimes. These are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
Deadline for receipt of responses
The deadline for response is 6 April 2010. Responses received before that date would be appreciated.
Enquiries
Enquiries concerning this consultation can be directed to SWPConsultation@mcga.gov.uk
Erratum: Since publication paragraph 3.27 should be amended as follows:
3.27 The Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat (ALB), the Baltic Exchange III, with a range of 250 nautical miles and a top speed of 25 knots.It carries a powered ‘Y’ class tender stored in a stern garage that can be launched and recovered via a hydraulic transom platform. Its propellers are protected so it can take the ground without damage.