LisaG1

Yes we have a paper version I will get Simon to get one to you.

240 now

A bit slow yesterday and today. We need more signatures Please.

Its 228 now. Very Slow moving.

Just had an e mail from Narrowboatworld.com, they have mentioned Sawley and Beeston moorings petitions. When you sign the petition it will only be completed when you click the link via the e mail that will be sent to you. If the e mail does not arrive to you have a look in your spam/junk folder or try again. We are trying to stop BW from taking all online moorings across the system so we do need your signatures please. Lisa

We'll support everybody that this effects. At the moment all we know of is Sawley, Beeston and Thurmaston. Let us know if you're being affected by this. Lisa

But we do need more support so please keep the signatures coming. Lisa

Thank you Ian, I agree. Can we get back onto the subject of our thread which is about online moorings and nothing to do with historic boats being saved etc. No actually He was making a point of why should we be evicted off our moorings when you have unlicenced boats or unsightly boats who will moor in our space if BW get their way. Now Peeps take your discussion to another topic please. Lisa

Thanx for your support StoneHenge.

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Actually the boat in the picture was an unlicenced boat which moored for months at Cranfleet, until the owners decided that they should abandon it half sunk. It moored unlicenced around Trent Lock area before mooring at Cranfleet.

I was hoping they would put a link or say something about our moorings on their website. Thanx VICTOR for your support and everybody else, please keep them coming.

Hi Steve,We've posted on a lot of canal forums and other non boating forums, but we are finding some will support this and others not.I e mailed Narrowboatworld.com but they havent posted anything to help us and i've posted to people that have boating blogs, etc. Lisa Hi all If you sign our petition please wait for the e mail to come through then click on the link to completely add your name to the list. If the e mail dosent come through check your spam/junk folder. Your name won't be added until you click the link from the e mail. Thanx and please keep your support coming.Lisa

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I posted our link onto another Canal forum and I had a reply to say a simular thing is happening at Gas Street Basin. Do we know of anywhere else this is happening or about to happen? Keep Signing our petition Please Thanx for all the support and please keep your support coming http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SawleyCutMooring/ Lisa

Just checked the petition and it stands at 114. Keep it coming friends we need to show BW that us boaters won't stand to be bullied by a bunch of numpty's. Lisa

If BW get away with this, then I wonder what the numpty's will come up with next. No thought of the consquences to us livaboards. It's annoying when we see the unlicenced boats wrecking and littering the towpath and nothing is done to remove them and here we are fully paid legal moorers who keep our mooring looking tidy with flowers and plants, being evicted. I thank you who are supporting us, please keep your support coming. Thanx Lisa

Hi has it gone to your spam draw, mine did when i signed?

No BW don't seem to bother with the unlicenced boats just down the cut from us. I'm one of the boater affected by this eviction. I live on my boat with my hubby and two daughters, so this eviction will effect our lives dramatically. I have my own print and embroidery business locally, We can't possibley travel over 40 miles to my daughters schools. So we need as much support as we can get because we have no where else to go and I think if bw get away it this time then it will affect other boaters eventually in some way or another.

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Hi I didn't take offence to your post, it just angers me to think that there are benefit scoungers that have no licence or insurance etc on their boats and BW won't or can't do anything about it, yet they are willing to evict us when we are willing to pay for a licence, mooring fee's etc. There are quite a few unlicenced boats that moor about a mile down the cut from us and nothing is done. They litter up the towpath with old junk making it look an eye sore, their boats look dirty and disgustin, shouldn't it be these scroungers that BW should be attacking and not us who are legal and keep our mooring space nice and tidy. I have posted a copy of the letter that BW have sent us.

Hi This is a copy of the letter of eviction from BW. For some time we have recognised that long term, online moorings can have a negative effect on the people’s enjoyment of cruising along a waterway. Feedback from boaters has included frustrations associated with crusing past long lines of moored boats, and the view that linear moorings have increased unacceptably in recent years BW has for some time expressed a desire to reduce online moorings in order to encourage private provision of new offline moorings, and our new Inland Marina Investment Guide published in 2006 made specific reference to this. New investment is essential to improve choice and competitiveness in the moorings market if we are to satisfy demand in the future. As a means of encouraging this we have decided that we will reduce one online mooring berth for every ten new berths being created in the new offline developments. These reductions will take place within the same geographical area as the new marina. The enclosed policy briefing not explains our thinking in more detail. As you may already know a new 280 berth marina is due to open at Pillings on the river soar this month, and this means that we have assess which 28 berths we should cut from our own directly managed moorings in the vicinity. This assessment to account of local densities of online moorings, operational factors, demand patterns and the profitability of those of our sites serving the same market area. As a result we have decided that we should close the moorings at Thurmaston, Beeston (roadside only) and Sawley cut (does not affect 12 month permit holders). Mooring permits for this site will all expire on 30th April 2008 and will no longer be renewable beyond this date. Our moorings officer (name withheld) is on hand to give you advice about locating to an alternative mooring for your boat We would encourage you in the first instance to use the moorings search facility at www.waterscape.com/boating/moorings which includes details of both BW and privately operated mooring sites throughout our network in case you do not have access to the internet, I am enclosing a printed list of contact details for all mooring operators within about 30 miles of your current site. Most BW sites are currently full, but we will aim to give you and other boaters in the same position priority if any vacancies arise on any of our other sites in the vicinity, providing that your boat fits any local site rules. Please let (name withheld) know if you would like us to try and allocate you to one of our other sites in this way. If we are able to offer you an alternative mooring you would be required to move onto it as soon as it is available and not wait until your present site closes I realise that this may not be welcome news and apologise in advance for the inconvenience. I hope you can understand our reasons, and we will do all that we reasonably can to help you find an alternative mooring Yours sincerely Kim Dale

Hi I see you've seen the copy of the letter that has been posted by Neil, who is also in the same boat as us (excuse the pun).

In Sawley Marina I bet there are over 500 boats, but its only a handful of real boaters that venture out of their safe heaven and this is only once in a blue moon. Congestion isn't a problem here either.

We have very good reasons to stay in the Sawley area. Beside my daughters education I run my own successful print & embroidery company (as advertisted in Towpath Talk) in Long Eaton 2 miles away from where we live and my husband works locally. My youngest daughter is under the doctor for some medical problems and we like the area, the people etc, what more can i say? We don't claim any benifits at all and don't need to claim benifits either.