In Autumn 2025, MMO announced plans to move away from the current Marine Case Management System (MCMS) to a new and improved marine licensing service fit for the future. The service improvements involve replacing the current technology with the aim to make the service more user-friendly.
Recently, the Marine Planning team worked with colleagues in Planning and Change to deliver a half-day workshop focused on:
Understanding marine plans and their role in sustainably managing England’s marine environment. Exploring how the new licensing service could better support plan-led licensing and wider marine planning needs, such as providing evidence to support marine plan monitoring and evaluation.The workshop included a highly participatory MSP Challenge session, where participants navigated the trade-offs and opportunities involved in balancing sector priorities with government priorities in the marine environment.
The workshop concluded with a structured discussion on how an integrated service could operate in the future to better support the UK government in achieving its vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive, and biologically diverse oceans and seas.
seen at 09:47, 2 March in Marine Development Blog.