Marinet member, Mike King, has written to his Member of Parliament, 14th October 2013, to ask whether the offshore marine aggregate dredging companies should be required to pay a levy in order to pay for the coastal defences along the East Anglian coast which are now being required, with a real degree of urgency, in […]
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- Great Yarmouth MP to write to Minister about a levy on aggregate companies to pay for coastal defences
- Marinet responds to new Marine Aggregate licence applications for Great Yarmouth Areas 242, 361A/B/C and 328A
- Marinet responds to new Marine Aggregate licence applications for Great Yarmouth Areas 401/2 A/B
- Marinet asks MMO to examine the validity of E. Anglian “wave model” for offshore aggregate dredging licences
- Marinet responds to new Marine Aggregate licence applications for Great Yarmouth Areas 212, 240 and 328 B/C
- Marinet tells MMO “to evaluate the truth of evidence” in aggregate dredging licence application
- Marinet challenges the need and impact of marine aggregate dredging
- Objections to Dredging Licence renewal offshore to Great Yarmouth
- Concrete plan to save Hemsby from the Sea
- Marine Dredging Consents
- Coastal Erosion threatens North Eastern Norfolk housing
- Lifeboats hit by escalating erosion
- Stable shores and sustainable sand production
- Surfers oppose plans to mine the Cornish seabed
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall renews his campaign to protect the seabed
- Mining for potash off the Yorkshire coast likely to secure approval
- Marinet campaigns for protection of East Anglian coastal SSSI
- The demise of Scroby Island
- Recent Coastal Loss of Norfolk
- Memories of the 1953 North Sea Surge
Correspondence regarding this dredging application is available here.
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Correspondence regarding this dredging application is available here.
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In correspondence with the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), commencing in June 2013 and still current, Marinet has asked the MMO to examine with care the validity of the wave model being employed by the aggregate companies in order to justify new and existing offshore dredging licences in the Great Yarmouth area. The wave model is […]
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A list of the correspondence regarding this dredging application can be seen on the Marine Aggregate Dredging section here.
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Following advice received on 2nd August 2013 from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) that the MMO had commenced its evaluation of the licence application by Hanson Aggregates Marine Ltd in respect of Areas 212, 240 and 328B and C off Great Yarmouth, Marinet has replied on the same date to tell the MMO how important […]
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At a time when the marine aggregate industry is continuing to re-apply for renewed licences to extract sand and gravel from the sea bed off Great Yarmouth, East Anglia — specifically at the present time Areas 212, 240, 328B and C by Hanson Marine Aggregates Ltd, see map below — Marinet asserts and wants it […]
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As you already will well know a notice of an application for renewal of a licence to further dredge off Great Yarmouth was placed in the local newspaper immediately following the massive loss of coastline, dune defences and beaches in April. Needless to say, considerable resistance has arisen in all quarters. Here as samples are […]
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Hemsby beach has been subject to intermittent erosion ever since large scale offshore dredging has been ongoing since the 1970’s at the rate of over 10,000,000 metric tonnes of take every year. Over seventy bungalows have already been lost along with 150 metres of fronting dune over the last 20 years. Prior to dredging, […]
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The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has recently carried out Environmental Impact Assessments for consent decisions on a large number of marine aggregate extraction sites, listed as follows: Click image to enlarge
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Continuing offshore aggregate dredging coupled with the recent powerful easterly gales have produced further escalated erosion along the East and North Norfolk coastline, much of which is populated and important to the Summer holiday market. We are again indebted to Aerial photographer Mike Page for these pictures. Click the photographs for a larger image […]
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In the past few weeks a twenty five mile stretch of the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline has had up to five metres of sand stripped off the beach and has lost over ten metres of dune protection, due to huge waves created by a sustained north easterly gale, taking the sand back to the chasms […]
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Andrew Fletcher has produced a short video showing the loss of the £1.5m Ridgemont House due to erosion, and how tree planting can at least mitigate the effects of this. He points out that were such measures used in the UK, making the concrete from sand from the surplus waste from quarries (like the Japanese […]
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Surfers are leading a campaign against plans to “dredge” millions of tonnes of sand from the seabed off Cornwall amid fears that it could wreck the shape and power of the coast’s waves. A minerals company is planning a 10-year project to recover tin washed out of old mine workings and now settled in sediment […]
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Damaging fishing methods and a lack of marine protected zones are being targeted by a renewed campaign to protect the world’s dwindling fish stocks, spearheaded by food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The dredging of seabeds with nets weighted with huge metal ploughs, tearing up all life, rocks and seaweeds and leaving a barren environment is one […]
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Potash development group Sirius Minerals is to obtain a licence to extract potash minerals from its 525 sq km offshore area of interest on the North Yorkshire coast – the largest component of the mineral rights within the York Potash Project. Sirius has said in its original licence application that the potash minerals lie in […]
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Mike King, a Marinet member, wrote to Norfolk’s Great Yarmouth Mercury about the urgent need for the protection of the Winterton – Horsey Dunes SSSISSSI Site of special scientific interest (Winterton Valley) from the depredations of coastal erosion. The Great Yarmouth Mercury published the letter on 2nd November 2012, and we reproduce the text here: […]
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The town of Great Yarmouth did not exist until the first few precarious fishermen’s cottages were built in the year 46 AD. Prior to this it was an intermittent tidal sand bank off the mouth of the River Yare, which a supply of sediment drift from the North and material from the river built up […]
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Normally along our North Sea coastline we experience beach sand loss and consequent dune attack from late December to early March, when the powerful northerly winds drive in big waves up our beaches and the undertow takes the disturbed sand out to sea. In late Spring, Summer and Autumn months, the opposite is true. Then […]
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An Anglia TV film recalling the great North Sea Surge of January 1953 can be seen by visiting the East Anglian Film Archive. Pictures of the damage and interviews with those recalling the event bring to our attention that such devastation could soon come again, perhaps even this winter. The cuts in the sea defence […]
