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Find out if your marine activity needs a licence, exemption or permission from another authority or organisation.
Details of how to apply for a marine licence, what documents you need to provide, how much it costs and how long it will take
Find marine planning information for England, including data on marine licenses, environmental designations and policy information from regional marine plans.
Information to help you answer your query before you contact us.
Details of how to correctly sample and analyse sediment in support of a marine licence application.
Information about impact assessments for marine licence applications.
Guidance on where marine licensing applies and what the key terms mean.
Contact details for all enquiries relating to marine licences
Find out how to create a Defra account so you can notify the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) about an exempt activity.
Fees information for the different marine licences and associated work.
Work out if your activity qualifies for the self-service marine licensing process
The timeline illustrates how the assessment and approval process works once an application for a marine licence has been validated.
This guidance explains when dredging activities may need a marine licence from the Marine Management Organisation.
Marine Management Organisation guidance on the environmental benefits of advanced mooring systems over traditional moorings, as well as the consent and marine licencing process.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
How to notify the Marine Management Organisation that you are carrying out a seismic or geophysical survey.
Guidance for offshore wind developers on post-consent monitoring standards.
Laying telecommunications and power cables within UK territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles) requires a marine licence.
An accelerated licensing process may apply to some applications for dredging activity.
Information on selected marine licence cases, including licensed dredging and disposal activity within the Teesside area.
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