Notices to Mariners

General Lighthouse Authorities 2025 Aids to Navigation Review

04 - 2024

Issue Date: Friday 1 March 2024

Aid: All Aids

Area: Island of Ireland

The General Lighthouse Authorities [1] (GLA) will be undertaking a review of Aids to Navigation provision around the coasts of Ireland and the UK during 2024. The Review will be published in 2025 and will inform the GLAs’ work plans for the following five-year period.

The GLA provide a comprehensive and sustainable network of Aids to Navigation for General Navigation and are responsible for the Superintendence and Management of Local Aids to Navigation provided by Local Lighthouse Authorities [2] (LLA).
The SOLAS Convention requires the provision of “such Aids to Navigation as the volume of traffic justifies and the degree of risk requires”. The 2025 review will consider all AtoN on the coasts of Ireland and the UK both individually and as AtoN systems.

The GLA consider good quality user input to be an essential component of this review. Marine users of Aids to Navigation are invited to contribute to the review by commenting on:

• The usefulness and usability of existing Aids to Navigation provided by the GLAs
• Any proposed requirement for the provision of new Aids to Navigation
• The mix of Aids to Navigation provided including lighthouses, buoys, beacons, racons, AIS AtoN.
• The benefit to users of providing additional data from AtoN such as meteorological data
• The effectiveness of systems used to promulgate information relating to Aids to Navigation
• Any other Aids to Navigation related issues

Comments regarding the provision of Aids to Navigation around Ireland should be addressed to navigation@irishlights.ie

By Order, Yvonne Shields O'Connor, Chief Executive