Lancaster Way - Application For Anglian Water Data Buoys
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MARINE AND COASTAL ACCESS ACT 2009
APPLICATION FOR Anglian Water Data Buoys
Notice is hereby given that Anglian Water Services Limited, Lancaster House, Lancaster Way, Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon, PE29 6YJ, has applied to the Marine Management Organisation under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, Part 4, for a marine licence to conduct water quality sampling and in-situ testing to understand the risks and characterise the baseline environment at two potential locations for desalination plants near Mablethorpe (Lincolnshire) and Bacton (Norfolk).
Testing will be conducted at two offshore sites per location M1 and M2 (Mablethorpe) and B1 and B2 (Bacton) (four locations/sites in total). A 600kg buoy with water analysis sensors will be moored to the seabed with a 22mm Long Link Riser chain and sinker weight of 1500kg via vessels. Sinker weight will occupy an area of seabed up to 1.5metres (m) by 1.5m and will be removed once each monitoring campaign is complete. The buoy, water sampling sensor and associated tethering/anchoring will be deployed at each site for a two week period. The single setup will subsequently be moved from one site to the next at two week intervals (+/- 2 days for weather allowance), and will continue over a maximum 12 month period.
Copies of the application and associated information may be viewed on line in the Public Register at www.gov.uk/ check-marine-licence-register.
Representations in respect of the application should ordinarily be made by:
- Visiting the MMO public register at https://marinelicensing.marinemanagement.org. uk/mmofox5/fox/live/MMO_PUBLIC_REGISTER/ search?area=3 and accessing the ‘Public Representation’ section of case reference MLA/2025/00193.
However, we will also accept representations via the following formats:
- By email to marine.consents@marinemanagement.org.uk; or alternatively
- By letter addressed to Marine Management Organisation, Lancaster House, Hampshire Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7YH In all cases, correspondence must:
- be received within 28 days of the date of the first notice (12 June 2025);
- quote the case reference; and
- include an address to which correspondence relating to the representation or objection may be sent.
The Marine Management Organisation will pass to the applicant a copy of any objection or representation we receive.
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