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That depend very much on the local council when it comes to council tax on leisure moorings. As is my own case in my ongoing battle with the privately owned Anglia Revenues Partnership (who run council tax collection for some councils) over my leisure mooring at Foxes. On which council tax has been charged since 2017. I don't liveaboard full time, only three nights a week the other four days at my home in Dorset. You have to prove to Foxes that you have your main home elsewhere to get a mooring. The point being made was the large drain on funding that a large group of liveaboards can be for a councils like Hackney, Town Hamlets and Islington & Camden. With them demanding access to council services which cost these councils a great deal of money to provide after the NBTA took them to court.

While planning my retirement, I was looking through the Waterways Ireland T&C's as one possibility for the future. While looking through the details, it seen that anyone wanting to liveaboard full time on the Irish waterways has to pay for the higher price liveaboard licence. The more you plan to stay aboard, the more you pay. That would not go down well with the NBTA or would adding the tourist tax to payable visiter moorings another thing that some councils are looking at. Afterall these overstaying on the towpath in London are a drain on council resources. Unlike those who are on long term paid moorings who are paying council tax on their moorings. Waterways Ireland also require a upto day Photo of the boat and that the name and index number is clearly displayed on the boat (Not on a bit of paper stuck in a window). This is enforced on Irish waters, any boat with it's name & index not clearly displayed or has no permit is removed pdq. It does seem that Waterways Ireland has far more powers to remove a boat than CRT does S.I. No. 247/1988 - Canals Act, 1986 (Bye-Laws), 1988. Waterways Ireland permits Combined Mooring and Passage Permit (CMP) permits the holder to pass through locks and to moor at the same Public Mooring for up to five days in any calendar month. Non-Residential Extended Mooring Permit (NR-EMP) permits the holder to moor in an allocated location for up to one year. A NR-EMP is non-residential and therefore cannot be used a primary residence, however the holder is permitted to stay overnight for up to 90 days in any one year. Residential Extended Mooring Permit (R-EMP) allows the holder to moor in one location for up to one year. Holders of a R-EMP have no limitation on the number of nights they may stay on board and are permitted to use their vessel as their primary residence.

They may shut up shop early, if enough people tell them what they think of their freeloading extremism and their dream of a Socialist Utopia where everything is provide free by the state.

A work of fiction

Hull condition and paintwork are not covered by the BSS.

The Caledonian Sleeper is quite good, even in the classic cabins (No ensuite loo and Shower) and I would travel to Fort William on the sleeper and have breakfast in the club car while travelling north over Rannoch Moor towards Lochtreighead. The club and double cabins (1st class tickets only) cost more than the classic cabin, it depends on how much you place the value of a ensuite loo and shower. The food in the club car is good, but with a limited choice of menu items which includes half a dozen 12 year old single malts. Senior Railcard holders do get up to 34% discount on Club Solo or Classic Solo rooms and seated products. As for the Highland Midge(Culicoides impunctatus), they have teeth like a bear trap, the good news is that only the females bite, the bad news is that there can are up to 500000 Midges for evey cubic metre. So hope for hot dry weather they don't like. Anyway I'm off to Paddington to catch the Night Riviera to St Ives in Cornwall to spend a couple of days with my grandaugthers.

I was sent a PDF file from my examiner via email and have done since 2016. I then just email a copy to the Marina Office and the MLC.

The Cyclists Touring Club (CTC) now branded as Cycling UK rejects any plans to introduce charges. Sustrans on the other hand who are busy turning towpaths into cyclepaths may support charging as they did with the K&A canal towpath back in the 2000's

https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/121163-housing-benefit-for-mooring/

"British Cycling" is the governing body for competitive cycle racing in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

When a licence is shared between boats, One of the tricks used is swapping the licence displayed with another on a set day, so it looks that a group of boats are moving when they are not. Displaying a fake or cloned licence (CART need to copy the Middle Level and make the licence hard to fake) and changing it ever so often. If the boat checker had access to a photo of the licenced boat, The evaders and rule breakers would be easy to spot. It would also bring a end to boat owners who have had their Name and Index number copied and are no longer on CART waters, being chased for non-payment of the licence and having to prove that the boat was not on CART waters at the time and date stated. This can take a few weeks or even months to sort out.

The Middle Level require that you sent copies of both the insurance certificate and the BSS with the licence application either by post or email. As there are only three marinas on the Middle Level. They are checked often by the enforcement officer for unlicenced boats. Boats without moorings don't have a licence as to get one you need to have a mooring. Which the NBTA claim is unfair as is the licence for their members are poor.

You can aready hear the screams of outrage from the 'Bargees' about their human rights not to be identfiled or recorded.

They should also require that a uptodate photo of the boat is upload with the application. This is the case with Waterways Ireland as it makes is easyier to spot a boat with a choned licence afterall most boat checkers don't known how to tell who the builder was. Ireland also has two types of licence depending on how long you plan to moor on Visiter moorings at any one time, with a lower licence fee for a stay under five days.

You do need to change the address to where the mooring is located, As they can visit. So you should add a message in your journal that the location has no postal service and if you have a postal address that can be used, Not that it should be a problem as UC is online based and very rarely sends anything via post.