"mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A Committee Member of the local IWA, asked a question at a meeting >> with BW. which was as follows 'What was collected in £25 over >staying >> charges on the River Lee(Lea) and London' and received the >following >> answer:- >> >> In 2007/8 our London office collected £3,050 in overstaying >charges >> of which some £400 was on the Lee&Stort >> >> In this financial year to date our London office has collected >> £1,750 of which some £1000 was on the Lee & Stort. >> >> After looking at this reply I have to say. We all know what boats >> overstay so working out on BW figures it was for the Lee and >Stort :- >> >> 2007/08 16 boats for one day or 1 boat for 16 days >and >> any combination in between = £400 >> >> 2008/09 to date 40 boats for one day or 1 boat for 40 days and >> any combination in between =£1000 >> >> Hope my maths are right as it does not seem like a lot to me that >BW >> say overstayed > >All the talk about using wardens or BW Staff to help with Policing >the overstaying boats, looking at the about reply from BW London, I >cant see how it would pay, with the money they collected over the >years. Plus I think its saying to the boats that do overstay. You >have a good chance of getting away wih it.
The problem is that BW (certainly BW London) appears strangely reluctant to levy the £25/day overstaying charge. If it did so more energetically, it seems likely the total revenue produced would be very much larger. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
