East coast marinas/ yards that permit 'liveaboarding'?

I have a friend who lives aboard most of the year in Ipswich Haven (he also has a house and sails some distance as well). He told me there are over 30 permanent liveabords in Haven.

Chatting with someone in Lowestoft Haven Marina, they have quite a number of liveaboards and is a lot cheaper than Ipswich. (Both are run by British Ports IIRC)

By comparison Chatham Marina kicked out over 30 boats during this year's lockdown as they had no land address.
 
hinch said:
pretty sure if you pay council tax on it its classed as a residential address.
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Aha ha ha! You think? If only our lords and masters, not to mention their underlings, were capable of such obvious joined up thinking

Two different departments one of whom will merrily take your money whilst the other happily tries to evict you. and usually succeeds (There have been such cases on the inland waterways)
 
I think the vast majority of marinas have liveaboards, though not always officially! But how are marina staff to distinguish (say) a retired person who spends long periods aboard from a true liveaboard? In most cases, plausible deniability is probably the watchword, or "don't ask, don't tell"! And if you go to sea or visit another marina from time to time, who's to know?
 
AntarcticPilot said:
I think the vast majority of marinas have liveaboards, though not always officially! But how are marina staff to distinguish (say) a retired person who spends long periods aboard from a true liveaboard? In most cases, plausible deniability is probably the watchword, or "don't ask, don't tell"! And if you go to sea or visit another marina from time to time, who's to know?
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Exactly. Mistake to think that all "liveaboards" are the same. Many are itinerant - that is they cruise around and maybe take a marina berth for the winter, or live on board in the summer and ashore in the winter, or (as when I did it) live on board in the week to be near work, or temporary between jobs/houses, or in preparation for casting off on the big adventure. So at any one time you might count 20 or 30 in one marina, then next year still the same number, but maybe half of them different people/boats.

Would guess the number who live aboard permanently with no other home is pretty small outside of proper residential moorings.
 
Ah well..... my op is redundant now (for Jos and I, anyway).

Our buyers (who were looking for a formal residential berth) have withdrawn from the sale/ purchase (as, no surprise, they haven't found one).

Genuine thanks for all the helpful, knowledgeable replies.
 
Shame, but as you say, no surprise. Important to find a berth first and then a boat . However residential berths are almost impossible to find unless you buy the boat with it. Despite that as you have seen from this thread many still find a way of living on board accepting the insecurity that comes with it.
 
Lots of liveaboards at St Osyth Boatyard (soft mud, dry most of the time).

There are some at Morgan Marine in Brightlingsea too but I don’t know whether they are a ‘blind-eye’ situation.
 
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