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EA Supports Rivers Investment
01 Nov 2006
The Environment Agency in the UK has confirmed that it will increase boat registration fees on the rivers it manages by 12% per year for three years from 2007 to help pay for essential repairs and improvements and the rising cost of construction work.
Stuart Taylor, the Environment Agency’s National Navigation Manager, said, ‘For more than three quarters of our boat owners the new charges will mean a rise of less than £1 a week on their registration in the first year. By the third year, their registrations will have risen by less than £2.60 a week on 2005 prices.’
After a detailed audit revealed one quarter of the 1,700 sites, structures and services that it manages along 1,000 km of inland waterway in England and Wales were in urgent need of work, the Environment Agency secured a £30m grant for 2005-08 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), a rise of £5m per year on previous grants, but there is no guarantee that Government funding of the waterways will continue at this level.
By DAVID FOXWELL
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