mersey barge

WOW. Dont know how this twisted into a council tax issue. Anyway I have confirmed with some councils on the Thames that they havent and wouldnt give planning permission for end of garden moorings. So as we are not keen on marina's we wil have to change our plans. As to the post about what difference being civil servants makes, well, can you imagine your job prospects after a headline in a newspaper saying 'Civil Servant living illegally on boat.' Anyway we would have and would have wanted to pay council tax. It the fair thing to do. I guess the people that dont pay council may be the same people who boycotted Amazon, Google and Starbucks for only paying the tax they legally had too!! Only a wind up!!! Anyway we are re-looking at our plans and will do something different.

I never said the C&RT had anything to do with the Thames. The statement was only recognising that the C&RT (and BWML) are cracking down on liveaboards on berths without planning permission. If you read the EA booklet on the Thames it states ALL 'legal' residential mooring with planning permission have full services, i.e. sewage and water etc. There seems to be very few that have services and therefore are legal but lots of people are living on boats on the Thames. Mike

Hi, My wife and I are hoping somewhere in the future to live on a barge on The Thames. We are very concerned that without planning permission it is illegal to live on a boat. There are very few residential berths and even fewer seem to become avbailable. We are both Civil Servants and would loose our jobs and morringif we were found. I understand there is a lot of problems with C&RT and residential mooring at the moment. Is there an answer, or do you just moor and hope? Is have noticed that some people seem to live at end of garden moorings, is this legal? John + Joan