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Aye, my feelings more or less... Hence why I'm determined to do as much research prior to, and for the purposes of, finding a solicitor as possible. Locality is a key search filter for me. Though if I can find someone with the right experience and I am able to, for example, have a local surveyor do their bit in support then I suppose that's the sort of arrangement that might work too. I'm keeping my options open at this point.

Oh dear... try writing in a frank, straight-to-the-point manner and get cut down. From my point of view this is a classic case of misinterpreted tone that so often comes with text-based communication. I was really just keen to avoid wasting anyone's time by inadvertently encouraging unneeded advice eg. this thread from 3 years ago on an identical request http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=56021 where only one person responded to the initial request. As I said, I have had much help from boat forum'ers in the past, for which I am grateful. Ah, thanks for pointing out the PM restriction ditchcrawler. Well the offer stands, so maybe then just reply on the thread and we'll figure a way for us to talk. I'm certainly no fountain of knowledge but learning a lot and so am happy to share what I know regards buying land to which one can moor in some capacity. Aaaanyhow, I have now found a solicitor who says they may be able to help and have leads for one or two other specialist firms, so once I've spoken to them in the following days I will repost here with details should anyone find the info useful in future. Thank you!

Hi folks, Could anyone please offer recommendations for solicitors who are savvy with the purchase/sale of freehold land with mooring/riparian rights attached to it? To be clear, we are not looking here for advice on the ins and outs of such 'rights' or use of the land, we have already exchanged ample spoken and written communications with respective entities including the Environment Agency, the current land owner and the Council/planning department. So I would just kindly ask that people keep responses in the area of names for solicitors. I only ask as I know that boating forum'ers are so often keen to offer their ample experience and knowledge in, usually, the most helpful of ways but we are already plenty benefited by the transfer of such wisdom and in this case just needing some straightforward recommendations of quality legal representation to do the bits we would otherwise find a headache *Note*, we are not, in fact, looking to live on the land or to moor as 'residential' Many thanks in advance, Chris. Ps. If anyone does want to ask questions about what we're up to please feel free to PM me.