There's a BW Strategy document on the Brentford Community Council website that's worth a read discussing why there's not much through traffic, and potential improvements, such as extra moorings in the main basin above the gauging locks. I did note a day or two ago that not all the winter mooring spaces have been taken up this year, but anyway.
Whatever they think should happen, will there be any money to do anything? I can't imagine there will be.
Also on that link is the local response to the document (largely scathing), and also other documents discussing the various Thames moorings at Watermans Park. A local councillor once refused to tell me of the complaints being received, so it's nice to have access to the paperwork. I can't help feeling that a large part of it is attitude - people want twee riverside views without boats to clutter them up. I can't help comparing the situation with Eel Pie Island, of course...
Work and play at Cropredy
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I'm glad to report that Herbie is still afloat - well you never know these
days with all the weather we're having; there's a 40-odd mph wind outside
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3 days ago
2 comments:
Maybe there should be a special tax on waterside homes which would be used solely to paint and generally spruce up moored boats so tha they don't make the place look untidy :-)
Sue, Indigo Dream
Actually, they're planning to 'develop' (always seems the wrong word, or the wrong meaning of it, somehow) the west side of the basin, i.e. alongside the visitor moorings and opposite the current 'new' flats. How long before those moorings are removed/restricted, especially if they add the strange little basin opposite...
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