steve yates
Well-Known Member
Harry Kings boatyard are asking for help by commenting on these olans,
I have just copied & pasted below as I imagine a lot of members have visited or regularly visit PinMill & may have an opinion. I couldn’t see the subject elsewhere, but if it is, apologies.
***New 10 year dredging licence application***
It is very rare that we would ever ask for help, but we feel so strongly about a dredging licence application that has been applied for to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) by Associated British Ports (ABP). Both ABP and MDL Woolverstone previously had a 10 year dredging licence which both expired in October last year. ABP have now re-applied for effectively the exact same thing. We completely understand and appreciate the need to dredge in the docks, rivers, and marinas up and down the country. Our concern is not with the dredging but is with the designated dumping area specified by the MMO. I want to make it clear that our issue is not with ABP but with the MMO who decide on what licence applications are passed and, more importantly, decide and dictate where the dredged up material is to be dumped. The licence application is asking to dump up to 100,000 tonnes every year for 10 years of dredged up material in the Pin Mill bay area and down river. This is the same as the previous 10 years, for both ABP and MDL. Unlike marinas, Pin Mill never needed dredging in the first place, it was already a natural bay, hence why it became a settlement in the first place. As you can imagine we are very fearful if MDL Woolverstone were to apply for the same licence again.
We have witnessed decades of dumping in the Pin Mill area and what was once a deep water bay now isn't. Pin Mill is a very special and culturally important place, known worldwide. We have huge concerns that if another licence was granted then Pin Mill will be a very different place in 10 years time. There has to be an alternative for dealing with the dumped dredged materials. Dumping it amoungest the Pin Mill moorings is not the answer. Pin Mill is suffering and so will our business; a business which has stood here for over 175 years and was building boats well over a century before marinas were even heard of.
If you would like to look at the licence application information and make a comment, please click on the link below. For years we have been trying to make the MMO understand the significance of the licences they grant that impact the places and lives they have never even been to nor met. We now kindly ask for your help. Pin Mill is one of the few affordable places left for yachting and boat owning and therefore this licence decision may affect your future too. It obviously also impacts all private mooring holders in the area and visiting yachtsmen to Pin Mill.
To make a comment please visit: https://marinelicensing.marinemanagement.org.uk/mmofox5/fox/live/MMO_PUBLIC_REGISTER and click on View Public Register and then search for application MLA/2026/00045 in the Case Reference box at the top. You can then need download and view the application in full and/or make a comment.
Thank you.”
I have just copied & pasted below as I imagine a lot of members have visited or regularly visit PinMill & may have an opinion. I couldn’t see the subject elsewhere, but if it is, apologies.
***New 10 year dredging licence application***
It is very rare that we would ever ask for help, but we feel so strongly about a dredging licence application that has been applied for to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) by Associated British Ports (ABP). Both ABP and MDL Woolverstone previously had a 10 year dredging licence which both expired in October last year. ABP have now re-applied for effectively the exact same thing. We completely understand and appreciate the need to dredge in the docks, rivers, and marinas up and down the country. Our concern is not with the dredging but is with the designated dumping area specified by the MMO. I want to make it clear that our issue is not with ABP but with the MMO who decide on what licence applications are passed and, more importantly, decide and dictate where the dredged up material is to be dumped. The licence application is asking to dump up to 100,000 tonnes every year for 10 years of dredged up material in the Pin Mill bay area and down river. This is the same as the previous 10 years, for both ABP and MDL. Unlike marinas, Pin Mill never needed dredging in the first place, it was already a natural bay, hence why it became a settlement in the first place. As you can imagine we are very fearful if MDL Woolverstone were to apply for the same licence again.
We have witnessed decades of dumping in the Pin Mill area and what was once a deep water bay now isn't. Pin Mill is a very special and culturally important place, known worldwide. We have huge concerns that if another licence was granted then Pin Mill will be a very different place in 10 years time. There has to be an alternative for dealing with the dumped dredged materials. Dumping it amoungest the Pin Mill moorings is not the answer. Pin Mill is suffering and so will our business; a business which has stood here for over 175 years and was building boats well over a century before marinas were even heard of.
If you would like to look at the licence application information and make a comment, please click on the link below. For years we have been trying to make the MMO understand the significance of the licences they grant that impact the places and lives they have never even been to nor met. We now kindly ask for your help. Pin Mill is one of the few affordable places left for yachting and boat owning and therefore this licence decision may affect your future too. It obviously also impacts all private mooring holders in the area and visiting yachtsmen to Pin Mill.
To make a comment please visit: https://marinelicensing.marinemanagement.org.uk/mmofox5/fox/live/MMO_PUBLIC_REGISTER and click on View Public Register and then search for application MLA/2026/00045 in the Case Reference box at the top. You can then need download and view the application in full and/or make a comment.
Thank you.”
