No Increase in EA Registration Fees for 2017

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boatone

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Have been notified that there will be no increase in registration charges for 2017. This will be the second year running and, whilst many will no doubt be pleased, it is concerning that, whilst repeatedly telling us that there is not enough money to provide essential services, the EA and DEFRA are not even prepared to exercise their ability to raise some additional funding to assist.
 
Possibly they've realised that any more increases will just cause yet more folk not to bother with licences. Every week-end there's already a bewildering assortment of small craft launched here at the public slipway at Ashmount. I noted last Saturday that of the 23 boats I watched launched. There wasn't one licence visible. Multiply that by every slipway and your talking pots of pennies. It's a bit like fags I suppose, they've made them too costly so Smugglers and Counterfeiters are having a field day.
 
Think (hope) Byron's on the right thread and the EA have realised that continually trying to get more money from boaters for less service isn't a sustainable path - put 5% on the license fee and how many boats does it take to not renew registration to wipe out that increase?...by my reckoning, if 1 in 20 boats don't renew after a 5% increase in fees, the EA are worse of than if there'd been no increase.
 
£18.55 per complete square metre. Charged on beam x length not just boat length. Technically its area but I don't think there is the option to calculate area of a curvy boat like a double ender so its LxB as far as I know.

So a 35ft cruiser 10ft wide would be 10.5x3 which is 31 square metres which is £575 per annum.

Info from .gov website via google search
 
Outinthedinghy said:
£18.55 per complete square metre. Charged on beam x length not just boat length. Technically its area but I don't think there is the option to calculate area of a curvy boat like a double ender so its LxB as far as I know.

So a 35ft cruiser 10ft wide would be 10.5x3 which is 31 square metres which is £575 per annum.

Info from .gov website via google search
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Many thanks
 
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