Beach detecting

[Rocky157]

Hi can anyone help

Lots of the information on the internet is confusing and contradictory about detecting on the beaches
Does anyone do it and what permits / permission is needed
I’m in the Blackpool area so looking at going on the Fylde coast area

Thanks in advance for any help

[sweepstick47]

Hello Rocky157, Welcome aboard the forum. Have you had a look in this forum?
Beach/Rivers Forum where you're most likely to find the answer to your question. In fact the blue panel over there is where you'll find just about every question and answer that's been posed over the last ten or more years, well worth a good browse Good Luck - Regards ss47

[Koala]

Blackpool itself isn't on crown estate but permission is granted.

It is on a SSSI or at least South Blackpool is. I have read the documents recently and there is nothing about detecting so you are Good to go.

however bait digging now requires special permission this is new. I wouldn't go digging big holes. If it isn't in the top 12" or so give up fill in and move on.

[Saffron]

Hi can anyone help

Lots of the information on the internet is confusing and contradictory about detecting on the beaches
Does anyone do it and what permits / permission is needed
I’m in the Blackpool area so looking at going on the Fylde coast area

Thanks in advance for any help

Some of this confusion could be to do with looking at old items. You used to need a permit to detect on Crown Estate beaches, you no longer require one and if you just follow the T&Cs are free to detect the Crown Estate beaches.

Evan

[Resurgam]

As Saffron has written; you used to have to download a hard copy of a Crown Beach detecting permit, after having read and agreed to the regulations stipulated by the Crown Estate's web site for beach detecting. Of course, the permit only covered Crown beaches and not those privately owned and the Crown permit only covered one for beach detecting between the mean high tide line and the mean low tide line.

You should still log on to the Crown Estate's site, read, fully understand, and agree to such conditions under which you are allowed to detect on Crown beaches. Following on from the Crown Estate's change of permission principles I was stopped by two officials (whilst detecting) and asked if I had a Crown Permit to detect on me and I was able explain the permission changes to them and show them a printout of the changes from the Crown Estates and also discuss my finds with them. For my pre-planned thinking I was rewarded with verbal permission to detect onto an area above the mean high tide line; which was eventually put into writing.

Most sand dune areas, well above the mean high tide line, are protected areas of special scientific interest and and detecting or digging there is strictly forbidden; as could be any saltmarsh areas.

As advised, abide in 'Beach & Rivers' section and you will find plenty of support and advice in here and please, please, please don't forget to backfill any holes that you dig in the beach, not to do so gets us all a bad name.

Chris