An elite River-Warden delivers an urgent bill for overdue mooring fees on this detached house
Flooded-out residents of usually sleepy Oxfordshire town Henley-on-Thames have received unexpected demands for mooring fees from the Canal & River Trust. “At first I thought this was just some cruel practical joke” said Deputy Mayor Jarvis Marten, whose mostly-submerged dormer bungalow is more often a good two streets away from the Thames, “but sadly not.”
Canal and River Trust took over care of 2000 miles of historic waterways in 2012, when stick-in-the-mud British Waterways with its rather old-fashioned values ceased to exist. Robert Pearce, the Trust’s Chief Executive explained the rationale for sending out invoices to house-owners.“Trustees of any registered charity have a legal duty to maximise their charity’s income, so when we spotted this potential income-stream we were on it like bankers on a bonus bond. Continue reading
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