Rescue teams focused on an area of the Irish Sea around Blackpool's south pier and sea wall and earlier searched under the piers.
Mr Maggs said planning applications for listed building consent for works on and around South Pier and Lighthouse Pier, and an application for construction of a new sea wall at South Pier have been published, but they do not cover the scheme as a whole.
The leader of Portsmouth City Council, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, has challenged The People's Pier to develop a business strategy for South Parade Pier.
South Parade Pier in Southsea is being fenced off and security put in place to prevent anyone from entering it.
BBC: Southsea's South Parade Pier closed over safety concerns
The organisers of a Portsmouth tattoo convention say the event is expected to attract 2, 000 people to the South Parade Pier.
The first South Parade Pier opened in 1879, but it was destroyed by a fire in 1904 and rebuilt in 1908.
BBC: Southsea's South Parade Pier closed over safety concerns
Sonny Wells, 22, broke his neck when he jumped off South Parade Pier in Southsea in 2008 - a practice known as "tombstoning".
Rowers on the River Thames have raised safety concerns over plans to redevelop Putney Pier in south-west London.
The trust had hoped to start restoration work on pier's south landing stage within the next few weeks.
Sadly, most visitors to the city experience only a tiny section of the ferry route, shuttling between Saphan Taksin pier in the south and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha or Khao San Road in the north (there are piers close to both).
The council said it had had nine letters of objection, including complaints from the South Hill Residents Association that the new pier would obscure the sea view, the extra height would mean it overlooks houses and it had the potential to create extra noise.
The breakers are now stronger two blocks north and south of the structure, or directly in front of the pier where the wrecked Jet Star remains, said Greg "Grog" Mesanko, a 62-year-old Toms River resident who for years was at the center of the Seaside Heights surf culture.
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