Orkney Islands Regional Marine Plan: Consultation and Modifications Report
This consultation and modifications report accompanies the Orkney Islands Regional Marine Plan. It provides a summary of the representations made to the draft plan at consultation stage, and explains the changes made to policy and text before adopting the plan.
3. Consultation Respondent Profile
3.1. Overview
In total across the consultation, 35 written consultation responses were received from 23 organisations and 12 individuals. Within these responses, over 450 individual comments were submitted, logged and analysed in detail.
3.2. Respondents profile
As part of the consultation analysis process, respondents were assigned to stakeholder groups. This enabled analysis of whether differences, or commonalities, appeared across the different types of organisation and/or individuals that responded. A break-down of the stakeholder groups is shown here and in Figure 1:
- Businesses (8)
- Individual/ Interested Persons (12)
- Industry bodies (2)
- Interest Groups (8)
- Public Bodies (4)
- Public Company (1)
The consultation respondents are categorised as local community members, conservation interests, academia and research interests, fisheries interests, aquaculture interests, energy interests, recreation, historic environment, utilities and engineering, see Figure 2.
