Minerals Producers Association The Aggregates Levy (AGL) was established in 2002 to generate revenue from the sales of primary aggregate for use in construction. The AGL has been applied at a rate of £2.00 per tonne since 2009. AGL receipts have typically raised between £300m to £350m pa for HM Treasury (£407m in 2016/17), totalling […]
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association, the representative body for the marine aggregate sector, and The Crown Estate have jointly published a new good practice guidance for marine aggregate extraction operations in English waters. Dredging of sand and gravel from the seabed is long established in England to secure material used as construction aggregate, for beach […]
Keith Cooper: ‘In this study we produce a standardised dataset for benthic macrofauna and sediments through integration of data (33,198 samples) from 777 grab surveys. The resulting dataset is used to identify spatial and temporal patterns in faunal distribution around the UK, and the role of sediment composition and other explanatory variables in determining such […]