British Waterways publishes it's consultation results

It’s Official, No Problem will be licenced at the lower rate!

Following the shocking revelation that continuous cruisers might be put into a higher rate licencing bracket back in July, today British Waterways have published their results of the lengthy consultation.  The have admitted several mistakes that they feel they have made in the run up to this threat..

We acknowledge that this consultation was controversial. We could have done more to reduce the controversy by having earlier discussions with user groups.

Continuous cruisers were the largest group to respond to the topic proposal from British Waterways over the higher licence rate changes..

Continuous Cruisers –This topic attracted the overwhelming majority of the total response.

Well with only 1359 continuous cruisers according to British Waterways, there really must not have been much of a response from other user groups it seems.

There then follows a couple of pages of quoted responses from this group.  There are 12 pages to read through, interesting stuff.. click here to have a read

I have had a quick look through, obviously we are both very happy that our licence for next year will rise not by 147%, but by a very much smaller amount.