Navigational Dredging Licensing

The latest ‘Fishing Focus’ published by DEFRA and the Marine Management Organisation (which can be read in full here) comments on the new licensing requirements for dredging emanating from the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, which (other than very small scale maintenance dredging) has now made licensing of navigational dredging a legal requirement from April 2014. (See: www.marinemanagement.org.uk )

Whilst this may not have a bearing on offshore aggregate dredging, it could impact schemes such as the new Great Yarmouth Harbour, which has been blamed by many for causing severe erosion of Gorleston, Hopton and other shorelines to the south of it.


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