Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BARRY HOLLAND wrote:
> Richard Fairhurst 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
But what was the result? Who won?
Barry
Nb completethetale
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