Don't want to get a licence? Here's a solution.

[Dave_P]

Spotted yesterday on the Oxford canal.

 

[churchward]

Smart!

 

I wonder though if they may get a large bill for a connection charge if they intend to dig and opening to the canal and float the boat that way. I guess you could just crane it in but why dig the whole around the boat if you were going to do that?

 

Mind you if you were quick about it perhaps no one would notice?

[ChimneyChain]

Fantastic !!! ........ But will it work ??

 

Darren

[EEng]

Where abouts on the oxford ?

[W+T]

If you clay bottom it or on the water level then no need, you have your own private VERY short stretch of canal cool idea.

[mark99]

He's already done it.

 

He dug the trench floated the boat in and has now backfilled it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe but look at the fresh backfill. And missing reeds.

Edited March 31, 2015 by mark99

[W+T]

I bet it took him ages with that barrow lol

 

one thing though, why ? to work on it or live there as is?

[bottle]

Yep that was how it was done, went past it and it was still on its permanent mooring (canal offside been there for years). week later we went the other way and it was all done.

 

Obvious in the daylight how it was done, I wonder if C&RT know, hope they have plugged the gap well.

[David Mack]

He's already done it.

 

He dug the trench floated the boat in and has now backfilled it.

 

 

Maybe but look at the fresh backfill. And missing reeds.

 

I trust he complied with CRT's Code of Practice for undertaking works on CRT property

[Southern Star]

I don't get it. Why exactly would anybody do this?

[Rob-M]

Maybe they didn't want to sell the boat and buy a caravan.

[mark99]

I don't get it. Why exactly would anybody do this?

 

I guess to avoid any mooring, Licence costs and use the boat as a home rented or otherwise.

 

A boat can be like a prepackaged modular home.

Edited March 31, 2015 by mark99

[Southern Star]

In that case I would have thought it would make more sense to drag it out of the water and leave it on terra firma?

[mark99]

In that case I would have thought it would make more sense to drag it out of the water and leave it on terra firma?

 

 

Maybe - however JCB's or tracked 8 tonne 360's are not uncommon on farms. Or perhaps he needs a pool of water to cool power generation equipment.

Edited March 31, 2015 by mark99

[Dinz]

If CaRT 'adopt' it there will be some interesting things said about travelling to ends of the navigation vs min. distances on a cc licence?

[mark99]

Which pound is this anyway?

 

If it suffers low water we will know why.

Edited April 1, 2015 by mark99

[dunfixing]

Now eligible for council tax and comes under local planning regulations, if it is lived in.

Edited April 1, 2015 by dunfixing

[Black Ibis]

Similar, but much larger scale set up in Devon: http://www.blagdonwater.com/

 

three widebeams for holiday let on a lake

Edited April 1, 2015 by Black Ibis

[Peter X]

Now eligible for council tax and comes under local planning regulations, if it is lived in.

In theory, yes. But in practice, the legal position may be much the same as a typical London garden shed arrangement. If there's a house on the land and the owner claims that any resident(s) actually live in that, it might be hard to prove otherwise, and if there are no close neighbours feeling annoyed by the boat and raising an objection, it may stay under the planners' radar.

 

A potential problem for the owner would be if the land has a covenant against storing boats on it; I don't know how likely that would be on a rural property alongside a canal, but taking a wild guess I'd think it's unlikely.

[David Mack]

Now eligible for council tax and comes under local planning regulations, if it is lived in.

Constructing a canal arm constitutes "development" and requires planning permission anyway, regardless of whether it contains a boat or whether that boat is used residentially.

[Naughty Cal]

Similar, but much larger scale set up in Devon: http://www.blagdonwater.com/

 

three widebeams for holiday let on a lake

Interesting concept. Obviously popular as they don't have many dates left for the summer months anyway.

 

We stayed in a similar set up in Victoria Quays many years back. The boats are basically used as a hotel room. Made a pleasant change.

 

http://www.houseboathotels.com/

 

They have changed the boats since we stayed with them. From memory the boat we stayed on was a 40ft Springer named Ruby. We saw her not all that long ago on the Aire and Calder having some work carried out by her new owner at the boatyard in Knottingley.

[pquinn]

Is removing water from the canal not illegal?

[Dinz]

It was them strong winds a couple of nights ago!

Pulled me pins out 'n blew me into the field. Honest.

[W+T]

How ever he has done it, its cool, not caused any harm to any one, aslong as he did it properly and backfilled properly.

 

Lets not all get `curtain twitchin` now and bring this person trouble..

[kris88]

 

 

Lets not all get `curtain twitchin` now and bring this person trouble..

To late I reckon

Regards kris