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Residential moorings at Newark


Jon57

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Having had a mooring there for many years, I cannot see how exchanging 10 'leisure' moorings to 10 'residential' moorings is likely to increase the flood risk.

 

There are way way more than 30 residential moorers there now, they just go 'out of the marina' for one night per month (either the boat or the boater) and it classes as a leisure mooring.

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24 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

Having had a mooring there for many years, I cannot see how exchanging 10 'leisure' moorings to 10 'residential' moorings is likely to increase the flood risk.

 

There are way way more than 30 residential moorers there now, they just go 'out of the marina' for one night per month (either the boat or the boater) and it classes as a leisure mooring.

Just the marina will get 3 times more money possibly. Makes good financial sense. Crt could take note how to run a marina. 

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33 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

Just the marina will get 3 times more money possibly. Makes good financial sense. 

 

 

There was never a great deal of difference between the leisure rates and the residential rates pretty much just the council tax.

The residential boaters in Kings Marina were offered the opportunity to pay full CT on their boats, or a proportion of the Composite CT, But if they wanted to go for the composite CT they would have to move their boat twice a year  - they had a meeting and decided that they didn't want to move their boats.

 

I really struggled to get the message across that all they needed to do was swap mooring with their next door (2 feet between them they wouldn't even need to unplug ther shoreline !) boat to meet the conditions - NO we will not move, I then explained that if they pay individual CT it will be band A and around £1000+ per boat per annum - if they pay a proportion of the composite CT it would come out at around £300 per boat per annum. 

Amazingly moving their boat (from A-B and then from B-A) every six months became less of a problem.

 

VOA Guidance :

 

 

Summary of Policy

The policy that the legislation is intended to achieve can be summarised as follows. Although this specifically refers to boats and moorings the same principles apply to caravans and their pitches.

a) If a boat which is someone’s sole or main residence is moored “permanently” at a mooring, then the mooring is domestic property, and both the mooring and the boat are subject to Council Tax.

b) If a boat which is someone’s sole or main residence stops at a mooring and moves away for a sufficiently long period (see 6.2), and it seems that when next in use that mooring will be used by that same boat or another boat which is someone’s sole or main residence, then the mooring is domestic but the mooring only is subject to Council Tax.

c) If a boat which is someone’s sole or main residence is moored at a mooring and moves away, and it seems that when next in use the mooring will be used by a non-sole or main residence boat, then the mooring is non-domestic and subject to non-domestic rates.

d) If there is a mooring with no way of telling what sort of craft will be moored at it, then it is non-domestic and subject to non-domestic rates.

 

33 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

Crt could take note how to run a marina. 

 

Well - if C&RT hadn't sold Kings Marina to AquaVista they could have done the same.

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