Dredging work in Whitby Harbour is being held up by red tape.
North Yorkshire Council says it is still waiting to get the required dredging licence for the town.
A licence for Scarborough was issued in December but Councillor Mark Crane says the application process for Whitby has been more involved.
"We have applied for a dredging license and we gave them all the information that we would have ever given in the past and indeed that we gave to Scarborough, and they came back and asked for a lot more information on the dredging that we want to do in Whitby Harbour.
My understanding is that we have had to appoint a consultant to look at that and to answer some of those very technical questions
it has now been submitted,"
Work in Scarborough harbour resumed in December when a licence to dredge was issued but the Whitby licence has still not been issued.
Councillor Mark Crane says the authority has bought in a consultant to help with a number of technical questions raised by the licensing body.
"We had done all the work that we expected to do.
We were quite shocked to receive the further reply from. the department that deals with it, asking us a lot more technical questions and we have to get more knowledgeable people in, a consultant, and that person has now answered all the further questions.
We're hoping that that gives us the license in the very near future."


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