#SLIPWAYS TRAINER SERIES#

A direct approach through a meeting or series of meetings works much better than a letter of complaint, but after the meeting send them a letter or minute recording everything that they agreed that you want placed on record, they will then have to file it (and keep it). If you can imply or even better prove, that there are benefits for youth sport, combating obesity and access for disabled, this multiplies the strength of the case. Both are expected to ensure that water access is maintained, if there are no slipways there are no moorings and therefore no income. To conclude, if your concern is loss of public slipways I would start with the Crown Estate, they have a representative in most areas (mainly to collect mooring fees) However in certain defined harbours their role is taken over by the Harbour Authority. If we wanted to remove it we would have to get approval from all three again but if we decided just not to use it we would not need permission from any one, however any work such as closing the access would require Planning and probably Crown Estate approval. Crown Estate have given very large grants in the last couple of years for marina facilities in places like E.L.Tarbert and Tobermory little knowledge but very powerful because of its name, I think they were concerned mainly with pollution risk.Д¬rown Estate because it crossed the area which they control ( everything up to high water mark) They have recently been subject to a lot of attention in Scotland regarding what they had been doing with the money they have been collecting from harbours and moorings for years, so have been trying to improve their image recently, they gave us a grant for a couple of thousand pounds ( first offer was ВЈ20k but the guy who offered went on extended leave) In the end the ВЈ2k bought cement for concrete, stone, rock armour etc was all contributed by local contractors, we provide some more money and voluntary labour. SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) a quango which likes to dabble in anything. Planning Approval which was mainly concerned with the access from the road ( but they required evidence of consent from the other two below) In Scotland (so may not all be relevant) most slipways which reach the water are controlled by the Crown Estate, last year when we wanted to build a new one for junior dinghy training we had to get the following approvals

Slipways trainer