MMG, MPS & MPG

Good practice guidance: extraction by dredging of aggregates from England’s seabed¹

1. https://bmapa.org/documents/BMAPA_TCE_Good_Practice_Guidance_04_2017.pdf

This good practice guidance has been produced by the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association and The Crown Estate as a replacement for the original Marine Minerals Guidance 1: Extraction by dredging from the English seabed, originally published in July 2002 by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Department for Communities and Local Government) but subsequently withdrawn. 

The present document provides an overview of the marine aggregate industry for all stakeholders on the ways in which it works, and the planning, licensing, environmental assessment, monitoring, mitigation and management methods that are employed to protect the environment and other seabed interests and to ensure the sustainability of the industry.