On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:31 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Captain Beeky wrote:
>> Snipped from elsewhere . . . .
>>
>> Moorings Dispute
>> =================
>
> I also read this earlier. Seems to me that the importance of this case
> cannot be overstated. I'm sure many people here recall smaller scale
> disputes in the likes of Nantwich and Ansty about moorings near to
> property. The concept that boats can be prevented from mooring in a
> "pretty" location by property developers is a scary one.
Indeed. A few years ago, when I was active in London IWA's Planning &
Navigation Committee, I gave evidence on their behalf in a case like this on
the Thames Tideway, at Downing's Roads, Bermondsey (on the south bank a
little way downstream of Tower Bridge), where local residents had persuded
the Borough of Southwark to try to remove some residential barges from a
historic barge roads, on the grounds that there was no plannng permission
for residential use. We were in support of the moorers. The case went to a
Planning Inquiry, which our side won.
Not only did the Inspector throw out Southwark's arguments that the
residential barges (a) were an eyesore and (b) detracted from the historic
nature of the area, but he expresssed a very firm view that the barges
enhanced the area and provided an important context in which to understand
the context of the historic warehouse buildings there (now all converted to
residential use). He also found that some of the arguments that Southwark
had used in support of their case were wrong in law. He ruled that planning
permission for residential use should be deemed granted subject to certain
provisions about minimum distances between the barges and the windows of
flats on the shore-line.
I'm glad to say that Ken Livingstone's people were firmly on our side of the
case.
Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
Defend the waterways.
Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
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