Boating in the Lake District - Potential Major Threat
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This isn't spam and I'm not asking you to forward it will-nilly, but there are a fair few of us on here who use the Lake district for all kinds of watersport.
I've have this communication from the RYA, basically...
Sorry, it looks like spam, but it's a real threat to Lake District users.
To complete the questionnaire, go to www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/enjoying/windermere/windermerenewsletter/lakessurvey.htm
I've have this communication from the RYA, basically...
someone said:
In case any of you haven't already seen this, I received yesterday a copy of the January issue RYA North West News, slightly belatedly, which contains the first published official information I have seen on the new proposals by the Lake District National Park Authority regarding boating in the Lake District. I am passing it on because I believe it is important to all of us, and we have only 3 days left in which to respond to this very inadequately publicised consultation on the issue.
Any of you who take your boats to the Lake District, boats of any type (right down to sailing dinghies and canoes), even if only occasionally, are likely to be affected by forthcoming decisions of the Lake District National Park Authority.
You may well see this as a threat.
Of vital importance, and urgency, we are now in a consultation period, albeit a desperately brief one, which will give you the opportunity to have your say, and for your views to be considered.
The Authority announced this consultation very quietly and surreptitiously over the Christmas period, with replies requested in double-quick time by 12th January. As a result of intensive lobbying from the RYA and others, that consultation has now been extended, but only until 9th February, which means you have only a very few days left.
Needless to say, the Authority have not given the matter anything like enough publicity to ensure that the majority of possible visitors will have heard about it ...
If you expect ever to want to take a boat up to any of the Lakes, this affects you. There is a briefing in the current issue of the RYA North West News, which I have attached. Please read the briefing, urgently, and then respond either via the Authority's website or by writing to the Authority.
Headline proposals include;
* Forcing all boats on Windermere (right down to sailing dinghies and canoes) to register, display a fairly obtrusive registration number, and pay their charges.
* Extending the scheme to Ullswater, Coniston and Derwentwater.
* Remove the facility for boatowners to register via the Small Ships Register, which is a lower cost system, and instead use their own high cost system.
* Reputedly (from other sources, not in the RYA News), to charge a flat rate for the full year even for the occasional or weekend visitor.
It seems that one of their principal objectives is to raise the revenue needed to fund their enforcement system for this registration (via patrol boats) !!
Any of you who take your boats to the Lake District, boats of any type (right down to sailing dinghies and canoes), even if only occasionally, are likely to be affected by forthcoming decisions of the Lake District National Park Authority.
You may well see this as a threat.
Of vital importance, and urgency, we are now in a consultation period, albeit a desperately brief one, which will give you the opportunity to have your say, and for your views to be considered.
The Authority announced this consultation very quietly and surreptitiously over the Christmas period, with replies requested in double-quick time by 12th January. As a result of intensive lobbying from the RYA and others, that consultation has now been extended, but only until 9th February, which means you have only a very few days left.
Needless to say, the Authority have not given the matter anything like enough publicity to ensure that the majority of possible visitors will have heard about it ...
If you expect ever to want to take a boat up to any of the Lakes, this affects you. There is a briefing in the current issue of the RYA North West News, which I have attached. Please read the briefing, urgently, and then respond either via the Authority's website or by writing to the Authority.
Headline proposals include;
* Forcing all boats on Windermere (right down to sailing dinghies and canoes) to register, display a fairly obtrusive registration number, and pay their charges.
* Extending the scheme to Ullswater, Coniston and Derwentwater.
* Remove the facility for boatowners to register via the Small Ships Register, which is a lower cost system, and instead use their own high cost system.
* Reputedly (from other sources, not in the RYA News), to charge a flat rate for the full year even for the occasional or weekend visitor.
It seems that one of their principal objectives is to raise the revenue needed to fund their enforcement system for this registration (via patrol boats) !!
Sorry, it looks like spam, but it's a real threat to Lake District users.
To complete the questionnaire, go to www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/enjoying/windermere/windermerenewsletter/lakessurvey.htm
I think you need to post this on www.sailheads.com, "Where wind matters"
Coat got, taxi started.....
Coat got, taxi started.....
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