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It's uncommon in Llangollen basin. It does have reserved mooring signs on some of the jetties that you can't read until tied up. Having moved once, to find the second spot had an even more obscure notice, I gave up

Why did you reverse in?

Are you saying that £5 won't buy me a £3m house or even a £six figure boat? That is one sophisticated scam!

If your post is meaning to set out facts, then I can properly seek to correct parts of it. But if it is intended as fiction (e.g. how you would like to see Council Tax work), I cannot correct it other than to say how I consider it should operate in an ideal world, which is not of much use to anyone. And it is unclear whether you are putting it forward as fact or fiction.

I was referring to your post, which was quoted. If you need it to be broken down into parts, that implies that your claims are a mix of how you think it works, and how you would like it to work, without being clear which is which. Your post makes several references to marinas, which are neither here nor there directly in the context of this discussion. So I fear we may be heading towards the very deep groove. Probably best to leave it here.

This is true and it is dangerous. But with a shoreline and inverter, there is a risk that the two will somehow conspire under fault conditions. Yet we don't seem to over worry about it.

Is this the way you think it is? Or is it the way that you think it should be?

Council tax is, at its purest, a tax on the occupation of domestic land. The amount paid is a function of the value of that land. Land includes buildings in this context. A boat (or a car) is typically a chattel and therefore not liable to Council tax in itself. If the boat (or car) has a sufficient degree of permanence it becomes part of the land/mooring (hereditament in rating speak) such that they are valued as one entity for the purposes of calculating a single Council Tax band. Whether there is planning permission is another question. Many, many houses do not have an explicit planning permission - most commonly if they were built pre-1948. Even if your house/mooring is capable of being subject to enforcement action, you don't dodge Council Tax. It wouldn't work terribly well if you could avoid paying tax by saying you were doing something you shouldn't!

In those circumstances, which essentially relate to what we call houseboats, there is only a single hereditament. The boat is not assessed separately, it is simply that it's value is taken into account in setting the appropriate value and banding. Planning permission is not required to create a residential mooring. You might well be in breach of the planning regulations but it doesn't remove your tax liability if, in fact, you occupy a residential mooring.

Must be a big caravan. If I understand correctly, Calor indicate about 34Kw can be supplied by a single 47kg; https://shop.calor.co.uk/47kg-propane-gas-bottle.html. No doubt it depends a bit on ambient temperature, regulator and probably duration of a heavy load. So, four would allow 132Kw - which is a lot!

The first sentence makes little sense (neither caravans nor moorings are to be found on moorings) so it may well be that you are not understanding. If one owns a residential mooring (or caravan) that is liable to Council tax - in the absence of another party with the liability (e.g. an occupier) you have to pay the tax, whether or not it's your sole or main residence (e.g. it could be vacant or used intermittently). If you are seeking a mooring for leisure boat you may well eschew a residential mooring as its could well cost you more than its leisure cousin as the Council tax liability will typically be more than the non-domestic rates of its equivalent. Technically, one may also need planning permission to change the use, which if granted would typically be disadvantageous for the owner.

Tieing up against the towpath was pretty much unacceptable as it interfered with the horse drawn boats, which would have been quite common even in the mid 20th century on the south Oxford. So I am doubtful it is a no mooring sign.

It's essentially a clause relating to who can have a licence - not one conferring rights or imposing restrictions to mooring against the towpath. This said, it is possible to draw an inference and that inference lines up with longish standing practice and a degree of reasonableness in the leisure waterway age. But it remains, in my view, a step too far to say that a 14 day right to moor is enshrined in law.

Elsanol - and it was a creosote type fluid https://collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/collection/object/object-139312/

And which law enshrines the right to 14 days towpath mooring for boats without a home mooring? For the pedantic at least, it's not s17 of the 1995 Act. That is entirely concerned with licencing rather than dishing out rights. And the place in which one could remain for 14 days is not necessarily the towpath, it could, for instance be an offline mooring. Not terribly practical, I'll be the first to agree. But there is no specific grant of 14 days mooring for Ccers any more than there is for those with a home mooring.

CRT allow ccers 14 days - and there is a degree of implication in the 1995 Act that it is indeed approved. But you'll be hard pushed to find unequivocal legal (i.e. statutory) authority.

The quote does not even assert that the statement was made by Counsel. If was anybody, it was an employee.