Limits on mooring abreast, and increases and changes in pre-bookable berths are proposed for London's waterways in response to what the Canal & River Trust sees as a “need to make moorings more accessible for all boats visiting and navigating through the capital” in view of the 4000-plus boats on London's canals. And the Trust is asking for boaters' and others' views in a consultation. Among the options already rejected for controlling boating on London's busy waterways - the Lee, the Grand Union Paddington Arm and the Regent's Canal - are any kind of ‘congestion charge’ or ‘London licence’, and limits on annual use of central London's navigations (beyond the existing ‘continuous cruising’ guidance for boats without home moorings). Instead, options proposed include: 1. Increasing paid-for bookable berths to 40 across ten sites 2. Annual limits on use of bookable berths by the same boat 3. Increasing overstay charges on bookable berths 4. A ban on triple-mooring of narrowboats, and any mooring against a widebeam, on the Regent's, Limehouse Cut and Hertford Union canals. 5. Extending overstay charges to include mooring overnight against lock landings or facilities points. 6. New on-line long-term moorings on the Grand Union (Batchworth to Cowley Peachey Junction), Slough Arm, Lee (north of the M25) and Stort.
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