Mooring Enforcement Trial - Oxford, Weybridge and Walton

[boatone]

Quote from notice received from EA:-

River Thames mooring enforcement trial 25 July 2013
We are commencing a six-month trial on Thursday 1 August 2013 at
our moorings on East Street, Oxford.
We have teamed up with car park management company
District Enforcement for a six-month mooring enforcement
trial. The trial will look at applying the same civil
enforcement rules used to monitor parking in private car
parks to our moorings. Our customers tell us that illegal
mooring is one of the biggest problems for them - we are
taking action to tackle it to increase access to our free 24
hour moorings, and offer more opportunities to more
customers.
The six-month pilot starts on 1 August at our moorings at
East Street in Oxford. More trials will follow at sites in
Weybridge and Walton upon Thames from 15 August,
2013. The trials will finish in February 2014.
Our ultimate aim is to find a solution which can be adopted
by any landowner on the river as part of a joined up
approach to tackle illegal mooring. We have been working
closely with River User Groups to develop this trial and we
will share the results at the end of it.

I have published the full Briefing Note on the TMBA website - www.tmba.org.uk

 

[bumperdump]

boat clamping on its way

 

[byron]

Tony, first time I have visited the TMBA website in ages. I must say I am very impressed by it. Very useful, well done.

 

[dash300]

boat clamping on its way

Or tow away as happened to me during the NRA days.

 

[watson1959]

I don't see how this will change things.

Today, the EA (sometimes) enforce abuse of moorings.....but the cost of pursuit exceeds the lost revenue. Even if it goes to court, the abusers are (probably?possibly?) those who don't have funds to pay anyhow, so even a court order and associated costs will go unpaid.....resulting in a waste of court time/fees.

The proposed plan changes this how? On-the-spot fines to people with no money to pay end up with the same cycle.