The Canal & River Trust was "taken aback by the hostility" of boaters to its consultation on new restrictions and £25 per day overstaying charges for visitor moorings in the south-east. But the Trust will carry on with what it sees as a necessary exercise in updating the rules in the context of a 40 percent rise in boat numbers over the last decade. Despite a 700-signature petition demanding its withdrawal and some boaters calling for enforcement of existing rules before bringing in new ones, CRT insists the current limits (usually 14 days) "cannot be meaningfully enforced because they do not tell you when you can return" - so that money and effort spent on monitoring them might simply result in "some - maybe even many" boaters coming back after a day or two for another fortnight.
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