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Stealing pebbles off the beach ?
When you walk past a household that has decided to 'landscape', their garden,they improve the look by the use of small pebbles etc; These pebbles are sold in 28lb bags at the likes of B&Q, Homebase,Wickes etc; for say£5-10 or so.Where do they(B&Q etc;) get the pebbles from ?Surely it can only be a beach,so do they just send a couple of tipper lorries and a JCB digger down to the beach and STEEL tons and tons,drive it to their depot and bag it up and sel lit to joe public? What a nice little earner!Del Boy would be proud! Or do they bribe a council to get permission? It smells of a scam to me,and how long will it be before that beach has been totally depleted?
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Uh oh,should I hand myself in? How long will I get?
22:53 Fri 12th Mar 2010
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When I lived in Brighton - and I am sure that JJ will bear this out! - it was an offence to take quantities of pebbles from the beach. In some places the council have had to buy in the shingle - it doesn't just arrive on some of the beaches! - and if all the landscapers helped themselves, the council would have to buy in another lot!
Under the cover of darkness B&Q staff are often seen shovelling shingle into bags...
I should think not....I'd imagine that B&Q will get their pebbles wholesale from a national aggregates supplier...
Our local aggregates supplier gets theirs... not off the beach....but some way out to sea.
They are sucked from the sea bed into a large gravel boat. Then they are deposited on the quay where they are sorted and graded...and then sold on to builders merchants etc.
I should think not....I'd imagine that B&Q will get their pebbles wholesale from a national aggregates supplier...
Our local aggregates supplier gets theirs... not off the beach....but some way out to sea.
They are sucked from the sea bed into a large gravel boat. Then they are deposited on the quay where they are sorted and graded...and then sold on to builders merchants etc.
The rounded pebbles bought for landscaping come from dredging not a quarry. They're bought as sea washed pebbles. I bought 20 tons of them a few years ago and the delivery wagon couldn't get up the farm track so the driver dumped them on the road (steep hill) and the ran back down again. Had to hire a JCB.
While walking up from a pebble beach, "five minutes ago" I stopped to ask two police officers if there was a law that states you can't take a pebble off a beach. Neither of them knew. One of them said, if there was a law then we would all be breaking it at some point and thousands of people would have been prosecuted. I wanted to know because I have collected a few. If the people who enforce the law don't know, who does?! and where can I find the written law about this subject, does anyone know please.
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