One of the UK’s most experienced consultancies in marine minerals, MarineSpace facilitates all elements of project delivery from prospecting and exploration, to maintenance, operation and monitoring, and final hand back following cessation of activities. Work includes the provision of technical advice on the geological, ecological, archaeological or cumulative and incombination aspects of the licensing or operation of aggregate licences, and any consenting advice that may be required.

Our services include:

• Advice and site selection support for tender rounds
• EIA scoping for aggregate sites
• Full environmental impact assessment and Environmental Statement documents
• Chapters and technical input into EIA documents
• Technical review of ES / EIA supporting reports
• Cumulative Impact Assessment and Inter-related Impact Assessment
• Industry wide HRA, including cumulative and in-combination assessment
• Input into Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA)
• Consent compliance, including management of licences on our clients’ behalf
• GIS database for all data across all licences on behalf of our clients
• Marine survey design and management both on a licence-specific scale and on a regional ba-sis
• Client reps / QC for offshore survey work
• Analysis and reporting of marine survey data
• Non-technical analysis reports of monitoring data
• Substantive Reviews of dredging operations, including review of licence conditions and EIA predictions
• Regional reviews of completed monitoring
• Post-dredge reports
• Research and technical papers
• Technical dissemination of research.