Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Neil Arlidge wrote: >> YEAH!...get rid of the spinless **** and get someone like Sir Frank >> Price in >> control! > > I don't think anyone would accuse BW of being "spinless", even now > Eugene has left. ;) > >> Bruce Napier wrote: >>> The idea (raised I think in another place) of announcing that some >>> of >>> the recently regenerated lengths will have to be reclassified as >>> remainder waterway as BW doesn't have the funds to maintain it to >>> cruiseway standard would galvanise the LAs concerned to do there >>> bit, >>> perhaps. The idea of taxing waterside properties in view of their >>> increased amenity value is new, I think (and down to Sheila, let me >>> say) >> >> I went on about that in my little read submission to EFRA. > > ...and I did in a letter to the Indy the other year (on the morning > of the BW AGM: > http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article1838337.ece), and a > chap from the Shrewsbury/N Wales IWA was suggesting it the other > week. So it's being talked about. > > A precedent has partly been set. Crossrail, the east-west London > railway, is to be funded > partly by a supplement on London business rates - because London > businesses will > benefit from it. It's not 100% comparable but it's a first step. > > For a while it looked like the "planning gain supplement", first > proposed by Government in 2004, would be exactly what we were looking > for. This now isn't going to happen, but > instead, there'll be a "planning charge" on new developments. This is > to be introduced in > next year's Planning Reform Bill. > > At present the charge proposals are focused around local councils - > there is no provision (AFAIK) for a national body such as BW to > benefit. BW needs to _urgently_ make sure that it > gets something out of this. (This would have been easier if it had > been pressing for a > move to DCLG, which will be introducing the charge, but no matter.) > > Some links: > http://www.communities.gov.uk/statements/corporate/planningreform > http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=555&storycode=3099618&c=2 > http://tinyurl.com/yvr6dn (CBI website) > > Richard
It happens already, in more switched on Local Councils, via Section 106 agreements. In the WWW's planning dept (RB Windsor and Maidenhead - they have already got the SPD part of their Local Development Framework accepted) £1 Million has been allocated to the Maidenhead Rivers project, including navigation...mind you it will be compeating for imcoming funds against a lot of other projects. http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/public/S106-22102007(1).pdf (page95) (personally I think this project somewhat barking, but it will mean that the WWW could moor up her Wildernii outside her office window! :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410 Read about our Irish travels at: http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/index.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
