![]() In this case held in escrow by the District Council. 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. ![]() 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. 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) It's such a simple thing but I doubt that we will ever stop needing it.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 I guess a well made slipway is something that can be in use for a very long time. It's nice to see it and think of how old it is though. Small boats can still use the slipway, but since it's pretty narrow, other boats wouldn't be able to. It's been in restoration many times since then but they made it so well and strong the first time, that it's still there. There is a historical slipway in our town. It's not expensive or difficult to make one. Wouldn't it be better to have time slots for using the slipway and to make it first-come first-serve? Or better yet, another slipway can be made which would resolve the traffic problem. The local government tries to resolve this by charging fees. I know that in some places there can be concerns about high traffic. I don't think it's right to make slipways available for use in return for a fee. Rivers and lakes are not privately owned, they are public goods. I don't understand the idea of charging boats to use the slipway or moorings. Now we're having a new one made with plastic planks. These guys ate away the entire slipway in a couple of months. Apparently there is a tiny kind of crustaceans (which I like to call water bugs) called gribble worms that feed off of wood. When we came back, the slipway was basically destroyed, the wooden planks were eaten away from the inside out. We used it for several months with no problems and then went out of town for a while. The guys who did it used real timber wood planks which they said were the sturdiest ones around and also resistant to water. My dad and I had a slipway made for the lake near our house that we often use for fishing. If anyone out there is planning on having a slipway made or making one themselves, I would recommend using plastic planks for it.
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