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To: Cambridge City Council - Executive Councillor for Strategy and Resources
Cambridge City Council - Stop messing about on the river
Do not bring the proposals such as auctioning off mooring licenses, massively increasing mooring fees, and clearing the railings forward to consultation, and do not encourage any more proposals to be brought forward which encourage gentrification of the river.
Update: the option to auction off mooring licenses will be removed from the consultation, as reported in the news yesterday. The other problematic options are still potentially going to be approved to go into the consultation.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/council-u-turn-on-moorings-auction-in-cambridge-as-it-could-make-people-on-housing-benefit-homeless/story-29780098-detail/story.html
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Update: the option to auction off mooring licenses will be removed from the consultation, as reported in the news yesterday. The other problematic options are still potentially going to be approved to go into the consultation.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/council-u-turn-on-moorings-auction-in-cambridge-as-it-could-make-people-on-housing-benefit-homeless/story-29780098-detail/story.html
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Why is this important?
Houseboats are homes.
The boating community adds tremendous character and value to the city, and living off grid provides affordable alternative housing when the housing market is in such a dire state. Making people homeless at this moment in time would be disastrous for them and further harm the social fabric of Cambridge.
The report mentions that the Canals and Rivers Trust uses license auctions, but doesn't mention the outcry and misery which this caused, clear from the responses to the consultation on the matter.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/8759-mooring-sales-consultation-report.pdf
The boating community adds tremendous character and value to the city, and living off grid provides affordable alternative housing when the housing market is in such a dire state. Making people homeless at this moment in time would be disastrous for them and further harm the social fabric of Cambridge.
The report mentions that the Canals and Rivers Trust uses license auctions, but doesn't mention the outcry and misery which this caused, clear from the responses to the consultation on the matter.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/8759-mooring-sales-consultation-report.pdf
How it will be delivered
At Strategy and Resources committee, 10th October
