Adrian Stott wrote: > "Mike Stevens" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A few years ago, when I was active in London IWA's Planning & >> Navigation Committee, I gave evidence on their behalf in a case like >> this on the Thames Tideway, at Downing's Roads, Bermondsey (on the >> south bank a little way downstream of Tower Bridge), where local >> residents had persuded the Borough of Southwark to try to remove >> some residential barges from a historic barge roads, on the grounds >> that there was no plannng permission for residential use. > > I believe this case is not a good comparable. > > The current operator of the moorings was able to show that there had > been barge moorings at this site for several hundred years, and seems > to have had a good case for ancient rights. The argument in the end > boiled down to how many barges were allowed to moor there, rather than > the principle of whether any mooring at all was allowed.
No, that wasn't what happened. Southwark Council acknowledged from the beginning that there was established use for freight-carrying barges. Their whole case from the start was based on the lack of planning permisson for residential use. -- Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
