I'll second that. But what should the fee be? --- On Sun, 10/19/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: My response to the licence fee consultaion To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 9:59 AM On 19 Oct 2008, at 08:48, Nick wrote: > I'm always reluctant to suggest increasing costs anywhere, but it's > hard > to see why - for other than historical reasons - this discrepancy > exists. > > > The "right" position to end up with is that everyone pays a > contribution > to BW as part of their license that allows them to moor a boat > whenever > they are on BW waters (you can argue that this ought to be something > that is in a license anyway, but BW seem to have been allowed to win > this one by default). That's then it. It doesn't matter if your > boat > is sometimes moored on a river off BW navigations, or on your own > garden, or in a flashy marina, or at various places around the > system as > you travel. If you have a BW license you have the right to moor > legally, and whether you pay anyone anything for this is a matter > between the two of you and nothing for BW. > > So this would mean, starting from where we are now: > - people without any permanent mooring would pay the new fee, but that > would be the end of the argument about "continuous cruisers/moorers" - > anything residual should be handled by enforcing visitor mooring regs > - people with end-of-garden moorings would pay the same or less > depending on what the sum was set at. > - people in basins with a BW connection charge ought to pay roughly > the > same, but I bet we'd pay more > - people in the situation you've described would pay more > - people on BW moorings would pay the same or perhaps a bit less. > > Not ideal - as I said, I don't want to make anyone pay more. But the > current situation where those moored on their own land pay more than > those moored on various bits of BWs is clearly iniquitous. > This is the best summary of my position I've ever seen: thanks Nick! All we have to do now is get IWA/NABO/RBOA to support it at BWAF... 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
