Marine Consent Compliance for Coastal and Offshore Development
Our specialist team helps clients fulfill the conditions of marine development consent, drawing on 20 years’ experience in marine licensing.
Reaching consent is a major milestone and an exciting achievement, but this leads to the next challenge – fulfilling a wide array of consent conditions and requirements. This is serious business: non-compliance can come with project, corporate and even personal risks. The swathe of consent conditions can be vast, multi-faceted and potentially overwhelming.
Managing compliance effectively requires a combination of specialist knowledge, planning, attention to detail, and agility.
Marine Consent Compliance
Associate Director Kevin O’Connell is part of a team that has provided environmental compliance services to the offshore energy sector since 2004. If you are looking for a primer on this topic, read Kevin’s article here. It provides examples from offshore wind, but many of these apply to other industries. Learn how to manage marine environmental compliance for offshore wind
Dates for your diary: when to consider environmental compliance
Compliance activities need to happen during the pre-construction, construction, operations and maintenance (O&M), and decommissioning stages. We advise clients to start thinking about compliance much earlier (ideally during the pre-application phase), to establish a robust system that delivers consistency throughout the life of the project and to avoid last-minute pressure on the project, its successful delivery to programme and budget, and its stakeholders.
We don’t just deliver the minimum level of compliance—we deliver what’s right for the project and the environment.
Leveraging technology
Unfortunately, compliance isn’t just a “one and done” activity. To support ongoing compliance management, you’ll need access to accurate, current project records. This will also help your team anticipate compliance risks.
Technology can help you streamline—and stay in control of—evidence gathering and record-keeping. Our team uses a number of secure, robust in-house compliance software tools such as myProjects. We have also created specialist platforms for our clients with a specific focus on their environmental compliance needs.
About us
Our team has two decades of consent compliance experience, with in-depth, specialist knowledge of the marine environment and marine licensing. We also have strong relationships with licensing authorities.
Tetra Tech has a strong track record in marine post-consent support across a range of sectors, including offshore wind, ports and harbours, interconnectors, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and oil and gas. Our experience spans the full project lifecycle, and we are uniquely positioned as the only consultancy with proven marine compliance expertise in nuclear new-build energy projects in the UK.
We provide environmental consent compliance services internationally. Please get in touch if you have questions or need project support.
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