chrisnw

In 'bonafide' residential marinas, you will almost certainly end up paying Council Tax Band "A," but you will be able to use the marina as your permanent address. In the Nantwich area, only Venetian Marina has residential moorings (to my knowledge), on the Llangollen Canal, Whixall may also be worth a try.

I have left 2 marinas (both so called "non residential") because of the antics of the "liveaboards". In one marina they openly operated as a mafia without redress and the marina owners refused to take any action even when presented with evidence of blatant intimidation. Where does this leave us genuine leisure moorers? - well as one "liveaboard" told me less than politely, "don't like it - time to ship out". I am total agreement with Mike on the Wey post , i.e. - "You would not be paying council tax, which should be charged on most residential moorings. You would probably be in breach of planning regulations. If you don't declare your true residential address for car insurance then you won't be covered. If the marina has full residential berths then will technically be underpaying mooring fees." Stay below the radar, don't make me laugh !

Many Congratulations, Steve & the crew at Midway are really great. My wife & I purchased the Midway engineer's (Nigel) boat in early July, we are now moored just up the canal at Venetian (excellent too). Sent the licence transfer form (and change of home mooring) off to CRT on the following day, received an email the very next day to welcome to me, plus login details for CRT website. All licence / mooring details (personal info + new insurance policy too) were transfered perfectly - very impressed ! No issues for us. Cheers Chris (North Wales)