I'd like a residential mooring and happily pay for one, I have a leisure mooring as that's what was available, it appears that without a council tax bill I couldn't have got a mooring at all - clearly it's a planning issue, but there appears to be lots of demand for residential moorings and no particularly obvious reason why it shouldn't be a fairly simple planning decision to create more in the area I'm in where tens of thousands of new houses are being built to cope with demand (which I suspect is fairly similar to lots of other areas). I'm fairly sure I'm not the only person resident on a leisure mooring where I am - though there's a fair chance I might actually comply with the terms of the BWML agreement, I have so far by going out cruising or spending time away camping or nights round at friends (if I had a girlfriend and spent a night at hers once a week it seems that would appear to make me compliant!)
Indeed - I had a copy of the council tax bill to show when I got my mooring, however that was from the previous address I lived at - where I was living at the time I wasn't on the bill. I currently have an "official" address where I'm not on the council tax bill either, at a friend's place just up the road where there are already 2 adults living (so it makes no difference to council tax payments - I can't see how it makes any difference to the council whether I live at that house or on the boat). Is there no other means of providing proof of residence to CaRT in the way that BWML allow alternative evidence (will be testing that one soon assuming they need something at renewal...)
I appear to be the first person actually in this situation to have raised my head - already a member on here, but name changed (I find it amusing that my new name was available!) and being careful how much detail I give for reasons. Don't feel particularly guilty given I'm paying the same amount of council tax I was at my previous address (or if I lived at my "official" address), that I'd take a residential mooring if I could get one and that whilst the main reason for choosing to live on a boat was "a cheap flat" I've always been into boating and owning a narrowboat was something that appealed and I'd already discussed with friends - everybody seems to think it's something which suits me - and I do regularly go out cruising, I'm enjoying living on a boat for all the right reasons (I'd happily CC legitimately if circumstances where different).