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Post by kris on Aug 9, 2018 16:48:41 GMT
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Post by bargemast on Aug 9, 2018 17:11:01 GMT
Nobody cares about the problems people will have that were there for more than 40 years, just don't moan and bugger off.
Where can they go, well that's a simple one "nowhere", so there will be lots of house float boats (no engines) forced to go "nowhere".
I feel terribly sorry for these people, but that doesn't help the poor sods without any legal rights whatsoever.
It's a great world we live in.
Peter.
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Post by Stumpy on Aug 9, 2018 17:19:11 GMT
I know this will probably be a bit of a stupid question.
But if some of them boat dwellers have been moored there for over twelve years, then don't they get the right to moor there permanently?
A bit like squatters rights.
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Post by kris on Aug 9, 2018 18:12:07 GMT
I know this will probably be a bit of a stupid question. But if some of them boat dwellers have been moored there for over twelve years, then don't they get the right to moor there permanently? A bit like squatters rights. No I don't think so, because it has been under contract. But I'm sure I'll be corrected. |
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Post by patty on Aug 9, 2018 18:14:00 GMT
I know this will probably be a bit of a stupid question. But if some of them boat dwellers have been moored there for over twelve years, then don't they get the right to moor there permanently? A bit like squatters rights. U know I don't think thats a stupid question...seems quite sensible to me... |
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Post by NigelMoore on Aug 9, 2018 19:36:57 GMT
I know this will probably be a bit of a stupid question. But if some of them boat dwellers have been moored there for over twelve years, then don't they get the right to moor there permanently? A bit like squatters rights. No I don't think so, because it has been under contract. But I'm sure I'll be corrected. No correction possible; they have no rights at all beyond the terms of their mooring contract - which can be terminated by either side without reason within whatever stated time period has been signed up to - and revocable sooner if terms of contract breached. Chelsea Yacht & Boat Co are very alive to this - the first significant (and much cited) lawsuit by them against Mr Pope established the parameters of the rights very firmly; as the gentleman said on the film clip: boaters do not possess even the rights of mobile homes on land. The legislative history is likewise clear on that; mutterings were made a decade or so ago, when protective legislation was brought in for protection against evictions, to the effect that houseboats were the sole exception uder the Act, but they came too late. |
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