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The boaters toilet pump outs and Elsan disposal facilities are available. Visitors can use the temporary public toilet facilities on Hannover Quay (near the Pavilion building), open from 9.30am to 9.30pm daily. The situation is under consideration as we assess cleansing requirements to make sure the facilities are safe to make available to visitors. Old maps may indicate the erstwhile presence of a slipway but are unlikely to mention its ownership.Toilet and shower facilities are not available to those on visiting vessels. The Environment Agency list some public slipways here The Agency is the present day guardian of this right. Each of these rivers has a historic public right of navigation – a common law right of access for boating – which was established before King John appended his seal to the Magna Carta. The Environment Agency is the navigation authority for the rivers Ancholme, Glen,Great Ouse, Lugg, Medway, Nene, Suffolk Stour, Thames, Welland and Wye. There will be no rent to be collected so that means of ensuring that records are kept under successive re-organisations or changes of officers and offices does not serve as a reminder. No doubt public slipways will fall into that category as they are primarily a liability for the owner rather than being a valuable asset. These tend to be those for which there is no great use. Councils are imperfect record keepers however so that much of our land has no registered title. Searching could perhaps commence with the land registry records of the particular area. However as the origins of some of this law go back to the doings of Henry VIII the difficulties surrounding finding traces of particular stretches of what will have presumably been in riparian ownership will be immense.
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In this case held in escrow by the District Council.
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If you are campaigning to maintain access to existing public slipways, I would have thought that the rules governing access itself was exactly the same as for any other public right of way (which may be lost if by prolonged disuse can be established) However it could be argued that right of access does not extend to include actual use but it would be take an extreme pedant to argue that you could access a ramp but not use it.
#Public slipways series#
A direct approach through a meeting or series of meetings works much better than a letter of complaint, but after the meeting send them a letter or minute recording everything that they agreed that you want placed on record, they will then have to file it (and keep it). If you can imply or even better prove, that there are benefits for youth sport, combating obesity and access for disabled, this multiplies the strength of the case. Both are expected to ensure that water access is maintained, if there are no slipways there are no moorings and therefore no income. To conclude, if your concern is loss of public slipways I would start with the Crown Estate, they have a representative in most areas (mainly to collect mooring fees) However in certain defined harbours their role is taken over by the Harbour Authority. If we wanted to remove it we would have to get approval from all three again but if we decided just not to use it we would not need permission from any one, however any work such as closing the access would require Planning and probably Crown Estate approval.
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Crown Estate have given very large grants in the last couple of years for marina facilities in places like E.L.Tarbert and Tobermory little knowledge but very powerful because of its name, I think they were concerned mainly with pollution risk.Ĭrown Estate because it crossed the area which they control ( everything up to high water mark) They have recently been subject to a lot of attention in Scotland regarding what they had been doing with the money they have been collecting from harbours and moorings for years, so have been trying to improve their image recently, they gave us a grant for a couple of thousand pounds ( first offer was £20k but the guy who offered went on extended leave) In the end the £2k bought cement for concrete, stone, rock armour etc was all contributed by local contractors, we provide some more money and voluntary labour. SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) a quango which likes to dabble in anything. Planning Approval which was mainly concerned with the access from the road ( but they required evidence of consent from the other two below) In Scotland (so may not all be relevant) most slipways which reach the water are controlled by the Crown Estate, last year when we wanted to build a new one for junior dinghy training we had to get the following approvals