An interesting news story...

[Halcyon Yachts]

I'm being threatened with PRISON for moving into unusual house on my own land

 

[Gustywinds]

Of course it’s true…it’s in the Sun.

 

[winch2]

Only in the UK.....

 

[Sandy]

An interesting story. I wonder if he took time to research the planning laws before mooring the barge there.

 

[Poignard]

One's heart bleeds

 

[dunedin]

Only in the UK.....

Explain?

 

[winch2]

Explain?

Endless petty beaurocracy. You can't sneeze without some jobsworth slapping you with a tax or a fine.

 

[winch2]

Of course it’s true…it’s in the Sun.

You might like to know the 'almighty' BBC in the eyes of some, hoiks a lot of its output from the tabloids.

 

[zoidberg]

Interesting.... in that I had lunch in the Pandora Inn nearby, on Wednesday. And that this topic is in the village of Devoran, where multihull designer James Wharram kept his design studio and his harem of wives and itinerant 'little helpers' for decades, living and working out of what was the old Doctors' Surgery bungalow.

They didn't have Change of Use Consent to make the building 'residential' so they all slept in the attic on a 'matratzenlager' ( See Wiki ) when I knew them. Certainly an 'alternative lifestyle', but the locals back then were quite at ease with Ould Jimmie's cult of sometimes-exotic 'eye candy'.

 

[MisterBaxter]

Only in the UK.....

Are there any European countries that don't have legal restrictions on permanent moorings for large live aboard vessels?

 

[winch2]

Are there any European countries that don't have legal restrictions on permanent moorings for large live aboard vessels?

Doubt it but the point is hes an intelligent fellow... surely he would have had all this figured?

 

[Gustywinds]

You might like to know the 'almighty' BBC in the eyes of some, hoiks a lot of its output from the tabloids.

But it will be sensationalised in the Sun, Mail, Telegraph

 

[RunAgroundHard]

The article suggests he did all his research and believed he had a right. If he uses chains, apparently, the right is established, it’s the piles that are the issue. He is worried that anchors will sweep the seabed. However, he could moor one end to the shore then tension anchors to hold the shore lines tight, or something like that. Maybe that’s not allowed either and it has to be a swing mooring.

 

[Poignard]

The Sun standing up for the little guy. How sweet.

I don't know where the editor of the Sun lives but she probably earns enough to be able to afford to live somewhere very pleasant.

I can't help wondering though, if some hippy brought an 86-foot rusting eyesore and plonked it down in front of her home with the intention of living in it, would she still be as keen to use the power her newspaper has to try and prevent the authorities from removing it.

And, horror of horrors, what if the hippy happened to be a former bank manager?

I seem to remember the Sun denouncing bankers in no uncertain terms when one of its political heroes had his bank account closed not long ago.

 

[[193211]]

I’ve seen this reported elsewhere in recent months.
Mismanaged bureaucracy and blatant nimbyism.
I hope he finds some way to resolve the mooring issue that allows him to stay and develop his barge.

 

[Boathook]

BBC bit here
Cornish boat owner who battled authorities for years fined

It would seem that he has to have permission from the MMO as well.

 

[dunedin]

BBC bit here
Cornish boat owner who battled authorities for years fined

It would seem that he has to have permission from the MMO as well.

One assumes that the judge n the legal case has rather more knowledge of the background and circumstances than we have access to - so perhaps the judge’s comment sums this up
Your arguments in the vast amount of documentation this case has generated... show a quite extraordinary level of head in the sand over the reality of the situation.

To be honest, not knowing the locality, I assumed this was the same barge and posts that was in another thread where people were rejoicing that it might eventually be removed.

 

[doug748]

BBC bit here
Cornish boat owner who battled authorities for years fined

It would seem that he has to have permission from the MMO as well.

Says:

"You could have changed the mooring style of the barge at any time and brought this to an end... it is utterly irrational."

Is the nub of the matter the fact that he has put two socking great piles into the fundament? He may have got away with it otherwise?

Perhaps no different to the innumerable pieces of wooded countryside for sale, you can't just buy one and then roll a caravan in or there would be hundreds of chancers doing it.

.

 

[Boathook]

One assumes that the judge n the legal case has rather more knowledge of the background and circumstances than we have access to - so perhaps the judge’s comment sums this up
Your arguments in the vast amount of documentation this case has generated... show a quite extraordinary level of head in the sand over the reality of the situation.

To be honest, not knowing the locality, I assumed this was the same barge and posts that was in another thread where people were rejoicing that it might eventually be removed.

That was on the east coast Unsightly houseboat in Lower Upnor on the Medway

 

[[193211]]

Found his pre-court crowdfunder. He outlines his argument.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sto...W4Y7mMiiOk6GM4Uvbc_aem_W77h2BhvrA299Ak19-KFWw