Pebbles from beach...illegal?

[SlurrySlump]

Is it illegal to take pebbles/stones from a public beach?

 

[Setanta12]

How many are we talking here?

I guess any amount in excess of a bucket-full; yes. Note I'm guessing here, but I'd imagine there would have been concerns sometime somewhere re coastal erosion if people were using diggers/carrying away trailers of sand.

 

[Slim]

Is it illegal to take pebbles/stones from a public beach?

As far as I can rember, you need a foreshore licence to remove any sustantial amounts of sand etc from the beach from below the high water mark.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

And there are also restrictions on taking fossils from beaches as far as I can recall.

Brendan

 

[Padraigb]

And there are also restrictions on taking fossils from beaches as far as I can recall.

So my chances of being picked up by one of those fine young things are pretty poor.

 

[ney001]

So my chances of being picked up by one of those fine young things are pretty poor.

never give up hope Padraig

 

[Bronco Lane]

Most of the foreshore rules and regulations relate to sand only.