--- In [email protected], colin wareing <owdco...@...> wrote: > > Hi all >  > I've just sent the following to B.W at Wigan and await a response. >  > I know it's an old one, but once again why on earth do people buy a house > alongside a canal with no thought about the use of the 'cut? >  > Please could we ask what authority has the owner of the former lock keepers > cottage at Greenberfield top lock over, whom, and for how long, they moor > their boat between the water point and the lock landing? >  > We moored up here on the Saturday morning of the 19th September with the > intention of trading for the day from our own boat. We have a full BW trading > licence. >  > We had checked with Waterscape that there was no time restriction. We did not > consider we would cause any obstruction to any other boats. >  > There was/is a 1 hour limit sign attached to the wall there, but it didnât > appear to be an official BW sign. We couldnât remember the sign being there > when we passed through earlier in the year. We checked with the lock keeper > who said that he was ok with us being there but the chap on the other side of > the wall â" on what appears to be non BW property may say something, as he > doesnât like boats moored outside his property. >  > After a couple of hours the lock keeper asked us to move backwards onto the > lock landing as the cottage owner had complained about us being there. We > were not making any excess noise, no engine or generator running, no radio > on. We did as asked but didnât feel happy inconveniencing other boaters by > being on the lock landing. Later in the day the lock keeper came back to saw > the cottage owner had rang his supervisor to get him to remind us not to stay > overnight. We had already agreed with the lock keeper that we would not stay > there overnight. >  > To save the lock keeper or his supervisor getting any more hassle on a > Saturday afternoon we packed up at 15.00 hours and moved off. We had intended > being there on Sunday 20th but thought if it was going to be such hassle > â¦â¦â¦â¦.. >  > We now consider that the owner of the lock cottage cost us a busy day of > legitimate trading. >  > Why is this possible? >  > Can it be sorted out please as we intend to return to this spot in the future > due to the fact that we got a very favourable response from the public who > had time to visit us? >  > Colin and Carole Wareing, narrowboat Patty Ann > Â
Hi Colin & Carole, I have nothing to do with the legal profession and my comments are m own views. Two canm be unco-operative! If I had a licence to trade and wanted to pitch my boat in a superior tradcing position, I WOULD DO JUST THAT! It is very dificult at this precise m oment for anyone in business on their own and self-employed people should be encouraged to trade where they can produce the best return. I personally think that the cottage owner is being MOSZT unreasonable. If you want support on this issue I would be willing to say my pennyworth on this issue. Go ahead folks, get your busines where you can. The cottage owner can always sell up and move somewhere else if he doesn't like the canals and canal people! I am most sorry to hear that you have the agrevation. Best wishes for yourselves and your business. ~Allan~ nb.Pengalanty. PS: If you want to give me more details of the parfticular problem ,you have recently experienced,(off-line), I will have a "quiet word" with a BW official, who is also a keen canal boater. If I can give you any more positive information following this, I will pass the info on to you. You can contact me on pengalanty at googlemail
