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Does anyone know if the EA patrols went into the Thames marina's like last year to find the license fee dodgers? if they did they did it very quietly.
I suspect they didn't or if they did it wasn't on the scale of last year
 
I'm often late to stick my licence on the boat as I buy it but forget, and did get one of their stickers last year). Didn't get one this year though even though it was late in the year again when I stuck the licence on the boat.

Not sure when they stuck it last year, or what it does, as there wasn't any follow up to it.
 
Aquafan said:
Does anyone know if the EA patrols went into the Thames marina's like last year to find the license fee dodgers? if they did they did it very quietly.
I suspect they didn't or if they did it wasn't on the scale of last year
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I detect a certain coyness about answering this question, from those here, in the Know.

For those that do not know, following a legal objection, raised I believe from someone in Penton Hook Marina, the enforcement teams were stopped from going into Marinas until the EA have taken further legal advice. This has been the situation for most of this year.
 
TT_WO said:
I detect a certain coyness about answering this question, from those here, in the Know.

For those that do not know, following a legal objection, raised I believe from someone in Penton Hook Marina, the enforcement teams were stopped from going into Marinas until the EA have taken further legal advice. This has been the situation for most of this year.
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Certainly no "coyness" as far as I am concerned and I do not claim to be "in the know". However, I hope they do decide to press ahead and prosecute as that appears to be the only way that this will be resolved and the situation clarified.
Regardless of this the "small" matter of how the management of the river is to be financed remains to be resolved and services and jobs depend on that.
 
Last year the EA must have collected considerable sums of money from boats parked in marinas with no licenses guessing maybe circa £100,000 which would have paid for maybe 3 lock keepers.
At the end of the day the EA must make more effort to ensure all boats are licensed or like everything else it will end up being outsourced, why should some pay and and a great many get away with it,
Drifting a little Patrol boats should stick to policing the river and if these regatta's for example want EA patrol boats present at their events then let the regattas pay for it.
 
boatone said:
Certainly no "coyness" as far as I am concerned and I do not claim to be "in the know". However, I hope they do decide to press ahead and prosecute as that appears to be the only way that this will be resolved and the situation clarified.
Regardless of this the "small" matter of how the management of the river is to be financed remains to be resolved and services and jobs depend on that.
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I was told that, at the recent ATYC meeting, a question was asked regarding this and the EA response was that they were reluctant to pusue through the courts because they may lose. I did not attend this meeting but perhaps you could clarify what was said.

I think this is a pragmatic decision, as the loss of such an an action by the EA may ultimately result claims from people charged in error and this would not help the EA finances.
 
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