BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Occasionally someone thinks > they've found a > loophole in one of the acts that allows them to do something BW don't permit > - the > Yardley Gobion 'Lord of the Manor' case is probably the best-known. > > Richard > > > & for those of us that don't know the story, could you elaborate please? > Barry > Nb couldbeinteresting
>From memory, the chap developing the marina at Yardley Gobion acquired the >title of 'Lord of the Manor', because he'd found that the Grand Junction Act allowed the Lord of the Manor of Yardley Gobion to make a place where boats could lay by. Thus, the logic went, he didn't have to pay BW a connection charge. BW disagreed and piled off his marina. There was a standoff of some time; the marina is now connected. Richard
