Kessingland ?

[Buttons]

Hello, been away for a while as a year ago I moved and lost all (3) my permissions.
Does anybody know if you are allowed to detect that strip of waste-ground between the sea wall and the sea at Kessingland? I believe it's made of material the sea has taken from Covehythe and deposited there.

[Phil2401]

Hopefully somebody local can give you the answer.... the Crown Estate map is pretty useless - shows a vague purple line along that stretch of coast, suggesting that some parts are included in the permissive rights, but this usually covers only the areas between mean low and high tide marks - is this 'waste' land routinely covered by the incoming tide, or is it above the high tide mark?

As always you need to establish who owns the land in question and see whether or not permission is required - looks like you've got holiday parks etc. who might have their own views on metal detecting.

Hope you get a satisfactory answer.

Phil

[Buttons]

Hello Phil, thanks for reply. No, the 'wasteland' is never covered by the high tide. It stretches for about a hundred yards from the current tideline back to the sea wall. Normally I would think, well it's not permissible then, but I was talking to a fisherman and he said back in the sixties his dad used to jump off the sea wall into the water. So all that 'wasteland' has been deposited by the sea in the last sixty or so years. I'll have to see if there's a group of local detectorists who know.
There won't be anything there but I'm desperate to swing a coil again! Cheers.