Alan de Enfield

Generally you'll find that if you get an installer, he / she / it will supply and fit manufacturers products that he knows (plus he makes profit on the components). If you want to supply parts then the installation will probably be more expensive, if you have not ordered a screw / clip / connector etc then the job will stop and you'll have to order the part and pay for the installer to come back ouit anothr day. Make it clear to your installer if you want him to 'supply and fit' , or 'fit' only.

C&RT do provide moorings in their own right - if the location and conditions are suitable they MAY call it a 'mooring' and allow you to use it for payment at the normal commercial rate. You'd need to ask and see what response you get.

If you are saying that there is a towpath between your garden and the canal, then you don't own the land and therefore cannot have a 'EOG' mooring.

What age is the boat ?

We were looking to buy a boat hire company on the Mon & Brec around that time (it may have been 2005) - looking thru their accounts they had had almost zero income for almost 2 years, but there was a single large receipt from BW. BW had covered their lost income for the period when they were unable to trade. It looked to be a too risky investement so we didn't proceed.

Before the implementation of the 'softer touch' C&RT undertook a review of the situation on the K&A during 2014/15. There were some 391 boats that were registered as having no home mooring and pretty much all of them came into enforcement. At the end of April, 33 boats were still in the CC enforcement process. However, many cases were closed in readiness for the new CC process. All boats that had only received a pre CC1 by the end of February had their enforcement cases closed.

The article does say it will take 4 weeks.

Recent history would suggest that nothing has been spent on the canal. Has there been discussions regarding its ongoing ownership or maintenance repsonsibilities ? Have the CPSN indicated that they will continue to own it in perpetuity, or do they plan to dispose of it when it become a financial liability ? Have the restoration group had any discussions with the CPSN or C&RT to discuss future responsibilities ? I'd suggest that in the current climate C&RT could easily refuse to take on another canal which may leave someone with egg on their face, and, a big future financial burden.

Generally bringing waterways back-to-life is done on a shoe string with little or no thought as to the longer term maintenance costs - is the intention to hand this over to C&RT to be another drain on their already overstretched finances ? Will C&RT be forced to take on commitments and responsibility for grants for the next 50 - 100 years ? Sometimes it is better to leave the extemities to wither and die, or the whole 'body' can end up dying. My grandfather was a diabetic, had a car accident and got gangrene in his foot, they left it too late before removing his foot and it affected his leg, they left it too late before removing his leg and it was in his torso, Gangrene killed him. Prune the rotten branches off the bush before the whole bush dies. When will these restoration groups realise that they'd be far better protecting and working on what is already there instead of making the responsilbilities & maintenance costs even higher than they already are

Since 2002 it has been law that fridges & freezers can only been recycled by licenced, approved, contractors due to the greehouse gasses they contain. The Removal of ODS Regulation Another applicable law when it comes to getting rid of white goods is the Removal of ODS Regulation, which governs the disposal of refrigerators in particular. Under this law, fridges need to be disposed of even more considerately than other white goods. This is because the chlorofluorocarbons gases contained within fridges are found to contribute to ozone depletion if they leak into the environment, meaning that the risks of improper disposal are even greater. This particular regulation was introduced by the European Commission and outlines that any fridges which contain chlorofluorocarbon gases or any other harmful substance must have these substances removed prior to recycling. In reality, this process of removal can only be completed by a professional waste management team or at a highly controlled site, like those found at recycling centres. As a result, to ensure that your fridge is disposed of and recycled in line with the law, you might want to seek support from a specialist white goods removal team who can quickly and efficiently collect, transport and dispose of your fridge with ease and the guarantee that you will avoid hefty fines and avoid causing greater damage to the environment. Manufacturers / suppliers may take back old fridges, some will, some will tell you how to dispose of it - eg AO will take your old fridge away for £30 Saying farewell to your fridge? From just £30, you can save yourself a trip to the tip and let our experts take care of it instead. You don’t even have to buy an appliance from us to use the service. Plus, you’ll be doing your bit for the environment too. It’s a win-win. Collect & Recycle – Appliances | AO Recycling – ao.com

Yes - but (apparently) there are seperate lincences for toxic, dangerous, noxious, polluting etc products. We have to make an annual declaration to Veolia as to what goes into our bins - hence Biffa refusing to empty bins containing 'crap in a bag'

Or Scrap man (Gypsy John) tells me he can no longer take fridges or freezers due to the nasty gasses, its just not worth being '.caught' Anyone taking a fridge has to have a licence and keep records on how they dispose of the gas once removed from the fridge. Had the car air-con regassed yesterday and was talking to the guy , he says its now so restrictive he is thinking of packing it in. The legislation, licences and gas disposal is just now too involved to be able to make any money. Maybe beacuse a new poster (today) asked if the council would collect a fridge and would HE have to pay for it ?

The council may arrange collection - do you pay council tax ?

So, if you moor your boat there, presumably you will need another boat to be able to depart the mooring, to go shopping, go home, etc, and then, to be able to return to your mooring. Where are you going to moor your 2nd boat ?

Walkers, joggers and cyclists in the city will be glad to hear that quick repair work is taking place to fix a fallen section of wall on the Nottingham & Beeston Canal. The ten-metre stretch of brickwork, near Canal Wharf in the city centre, recently collapsed and has led to water encroaching on the towpath. The failure is causing the towpath to slope down towards the canal and the repair work will involve metal sheets being installed along the wall to strengthen it before the path is reinstated to its correct level. Work started on Monday, April 29, and is expected to last for around four weeks. Nottingham City Council is paying for the repairs with money from the Government's Transforming Cities fund. The Canal & River Trust, a national charity, is continuing efforts in Nottingham to protect the city's historic waterways and ensure they are open, safe and welcoming. Linny Beaumont, regional director for the Canal & River Trust, said: “The canal is a much-loved route into the city with people taking the opportunity to enjoy relaxing time by water as they make their way to work, university and the shops, so it’s important that we carry out these works. “Our historic waterways need constant care and, as a charity, our expert teams and dedicated volunteers are working all year round to keep our canals alive. We’re really grateful that funding has been secured for this project, enabling us to make sure the canal is safe, accessible and protected for future generations.”

You would have to ask C&RT - the information is taken from the C&RT website and from a presentation they made at an "Open Boaters Meeting" in Nottingham They also give (elsewhere on their website) a figure of 258 boats removed from their waters in the 4 years to 2014

From July 2012 to August 2014 C&RT removed (section 8 ) 170 boats, of which 57 went thru the courts as they were liveaboards. 9 boats were reclaimed by the owners and 3 of those were subsequently relicenced. The cost of these removals was £850,000 not including storage or destruction and removal costs. The 9 boats reclaimed paid C&RT a total of £45,000. At the end of the day C&RT spent £805,000, to remove 170 unlicenced boats and it only resulted in 3 boaters renewing their licence. Not “the cheapest way” to enforce boat licensing in my book; while I take the point that fear of seizure will reduce the numbers taking the risk of going unlicensed in the first place – that amounts to over a quarter million per successfully enforced re-licensing.

Yes, and I would suggest that the Ferry possibly does more miles in a day than some CCers do in a year. He also said : A boat which has a home mooring is not required to be “bona fide” used for navigation throughout the period of the licence, but neither is it required to ever use its home mooring. The act requires that the mooring is available, it does not say it must be used. The guidelines also have this effect. The boat is still subject to the restriction that it must not stay in the same place for more than 14 days but there is nothing whatever to stop it being shuffled between two locations quite close together provided they are far enough apart to constitute different places. If those who are causing the overcrowding at popular spots have home moorings anywhere in the country the present regime cannot control their overuse of the popular spots. Such an owner could cruise to and fro along the Kennet & Avon canal near Bristol and the home mooring could be in Birmingham and totally unused.

Slight amendement. Even living in 'bricks an mortar' its impossible to find an NHS dentist.

Some say the market is cooling down, but certainly for the last 10 years + if you didn't have the money available when you 1st saw the boat, it would be sold before you got finance / loans in place. Buyers have been registering their interest with brokers and as soon as a boat comes in they are notified and many have sold before they even hit the website. No money - No boat. With a personal loan it is against the person, not against any specific boat and if it sinks or is stolen then the lender doesn't lose out because the lender still has to pay the loan back. If you need finance get a personal loan, add on your savings and that is what you have you buy a boat**. There will always be 'better boats' that you'd want but cannot afford, the same with cars or houses, thats just a fact of life ** Keep £5000 back for the survey, licence, insurance and the 1st 3 months running costs when you find out all the things the surveyor missed.

I read it as they are paid, temporary lock keepers, who have volunter lock assistants working with them. Over the years we've employed around 24 seasonal lock keepers during the annual boating season on temporary contracts through an employment agency. We have never had specific funding for these posts and providing these additional personnel for assisted passage at locks is not part of the Environment Agency's statutory duties."

But there is always a 'primary purpose' of any multi funtional item - in the case of a pick up truck the primary purpose is assumed to be for commercial use hence the reason that it has so many tax benefits - including a reduced rate of annual 'road tax'. From the HMRC update Feb 2024 The tax on the benefit-in-kind will now not increase when employers provide these vehicles to their employees; and the capital allowances available in the first year of use will now not be reduced when a business purchases this vehicle for use in their trade. This will ensure a continued generous and consistent treatment of DCPUs for capital allowances, benefit in kind, and VAT purposes, maintaining simplicity in the tax system. In the case of the liveaboard - the primary use of the boat is as the owners 'sole or main' residence.

In a court case, Mr Stoner QC put forward the suggestion that in fact a Liveaboard can never comply with the CCer requirement to Bona Fide navigate ............... The judge in Davies got bamboozled by Mr Stoner QC's (as he since became) clever rhetoric on the point. As one online commentator noted at the time, if the letter of the law is being followed, it really does not matter why. To say that Mr Davies' movement pattern was unexceptional in itself (the 'continuous journey' argument of BW was rejected - “I think it is right to say however that my decision is not to be taken as fully endorsing the board's guidance. It is possible to envisage use of a vessel which fell short of the Board's concept of continuous cruising but which still qualified the vessel for a licence under section 17(3)( c )(ii).”), but that he was committing a criminal act because he only complied in order to comply – hence was not 'bona fide' in what he was doing - was ludicrous. Mr Davies' downfall, in the eyes of the judge, was that he was “clearly living on the boat”, hence that his purpose with the boat was therefore not for navigating. On that argument, it could never have made any difference no matter what his movement pattern was. Every permanent live-aboard embarked on a progressive journey around the system in their retirement would be unlawful, simply because they had made the boat their sole and permanent home

No mention of the chemical marker that is added to Red - unlike the dye, this cannot be removed by distilation. bleaching etc.

The number of seasonal lock keepers on the River Thames has been slashed by over half. The Environment Agency (EA) are bringing in ten extra members of staff to man the locks in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, compared the previous 24. One company that offers river cruising and boat hire on the Thames said the change was a "backwards step". But the EA said it did not have specific funding for the roles, and it was not part of its statutory duties. Jonathan Hobbs is the managing director of Hobbs of Henley, which offers river cruising and boat hire on the Thames. He said: "Filling a lock efficiently and quickly is important for the customers enjoyment of pleasure boating, and for health and safety as well." "If a lock keeper has a holiday, sometimes those locks can go unmanned and then people have paid money to rent a boat, and they've spent a lot of their time queueing to go through it, and then queueing to come back through it to get back to Henley - so it negates their positive experience of the Thames, and they're more likely not to come back." He added: "We've been investing heavily in new boats. That results in increased licence fees for the Environment Agency, so increased revenue, but we're feeling a little betrayed by the lack of service given back." In the past, the EA has used 24 temporary lock keepers between May and October to deal with the increased traffic on the waterways during summer. They work alongside a team of volunteer assistants to make sure the traffic can flow smoothly. Eight of the ten temporary lock keepers will work in Oxfordshire, with the other two in Berkshire. In a statement, the EA said: "Over the years we've employed around 24 seasonal lock keepers during the annual boating season on temporary contracts through an employment agency. We have never had specific funding for these posts and providing these additional personnel for assisted passage at locks is not part of the Environment Agency's statutory duties." It added: "We have conducted a review of where our funds will be best spent, which we will share with our stakeholders shortly. We have worked with our lock keepers throughout this process and we will continue to work with them and support them whilst implementing these changes."