Boaters Forced to pay up for Flouting Laws

[FishingMagic]

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[Jeff Woodhouse]

"The income we raise from boat registration is very important for the community and the environment. It contributes directly to improving and maintaining waterway structures such as locks and lay-bys, as well as providing facilities like visitor moorings, water points, rubbish and sewage disposal and electric boat charging hook-ups."

Yes, but not decent slipways with nearby adequate parking for small craft owners!

Look after the gin-palaces, that's all Navigations does!

[itsfishingnotcatching]

"It is crucial that boaters also provide adequate sanitary appliances for their boat to ensure that no raw sewage is discharged into the River Thames which can have a detrimental effect on human health and wildlife."

But its OK to discharge millions of gallons into the same river if it rains too heavily in London

[Paul Boote]

Originally Posted by Jeff Woodhouse

"The income we raise from boat registration is very important for the community and the environment. It contributes directly to improving and maintaining waterway structures such as locks and lay-bys, as well as providing facilities like visitor moorings, water points, rubbish and sewage disposal and electric boat charging hook-ups."

Yes, but not decent slipways with nearby adequate parking for small craft owners!

Look after the gin-palaces, that's all Navigations does!

Slipways and parking spaces... Thames-side dwellers would, right down to the 2-day-old latest addition to their super-confident, articulate, affluent and well-connected Nimby ranks, take anyone trying to build such unimaginable blots on their landscape to the highest court in the land...

[Jeff Woodhouse]

Originally Posted by Paul Boote

Thames-side dwellers would, right down to the 2-day-old latest addition to their super-confident, articulate, affluent and well-connected Nimby ranks, take anyone trying to build such unimaginable blots on their landscape to the highest court in the land...

But there are plenty of places where it can be done and would affect no one at all.

EGs: Marlow, Queen Street, nice slipway, but once you've launched your boat and put all your tackle in it, you have to leave it and drive the best part of a mile to park your car - and pay extra for the trailer!!!

Or Bourne End, where there is a belting car park (FREE) just 100 yards from the river (abutting a field that belongs to County Council) and NO slipway. Why can't the EA negotiate with the CC and build one?

Answer - because no one gives a toss! Grab the money and do nowt!

[Paul Boote]

Originally Posted by Jeff Woodhouse

Answer - because no one gives a toss! Grab the money and do nowt!

Yeah...

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[cg74]

Originally Posted by itsfishingnotcatching

"It is crucial that boaters also provide adequate sanitary appliances for their boat to ensure that no raw sewage is discharged into the River Thames which can have a detrimental effect on human health and wildlife."

But its OK to discharge millions of gallons into the same river if it rains too heavily in London

That about sums it up, easier to pursue the small guy than the big company...

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Originally Posted by cg74

That about sums it up, easier to pursue the small guy than the big company...

too true Paul