John Slee wrote: > --- In [email protected], Adrian > Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A move to auctions solves four problems: >> >> (a) AVAILABILITY. >> (c) MANDATE. >> (c) REVENUE. >> (d) EFFICIENCY. >> PS Moorings prices are going to to up anyway, auctions or not. > > a) I thought the alphabet goes aBcd .... and to prove it: > b) A move to providing more moorings - partly marinas, partly > dual-carriageway linear moorings parallel to the canal with a long > island "central reservation" > (e.g. N Oxford Canal) - solves all four problems (acc&d) > c) It is not inevitable that mooring prices go up higher than > inflation. > d) If it's all about supply and demand, more moorings will stem > prices, increase income and by passing collection on to marina owners > increase BW's efficiency rate. > > PS I know BW have released a New Marina pack, but I believe they > should put *all* their efforts into this, and supporting marina > developers' planning applications in the same way that they supported > the Ladybridge moorings, on a long-term basis.
I believe that BW have tried to support planning applications for marinas...the problem is those bloody planners! :-) (or the bloody councilors) Talk of planners the WWW's planning dept at RB Windsor and Maidenhead has had the most bizarre descions by the Secretary Of State recently, flying totally against all government planning policies. -- Neil Arlidge - WB Mini Me - owned by one of those bloody planners! :-) Follow the truly independent TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk Visit this site and help save our waterways from the DEFRA cuts http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
