Rudolph Hooker -- Marina Saga II

I was having a drink in a pub the other day, when I got talking to a chap who was a retired civil servant. He reminded me one can actually do something, or one can be seen to be doing something. The two are totally different but look the same to a casual observer. I would suggest AV's marina policy falls into the latter category i.e. going through the motions but achieving nothing.

If you were seriously trying to develop marinas, you would, by now, have identified a number of possible sites around the system and entered discussions with the planning departments of the Councils involved. Has this happened ? No. Planning permission is up to the developer AV maintains. Indeed, AV has suggested sites to developers near beauty spots so there is not a snowball's chance in hell of getting planning permission for a marina. Have any old gravel pits or the like been suggested..... not likely, something might happen.

AV has also hindered development by saying "traffic surveys" must be carried out to study the impact a proposed marina may have at a given location and this takes at least 12 months.
Why? Doesn't AV(2010)PLC already know where hold ups occur? Just ask the boaters or hire boats companies . They'll soon tell you, and it won't take 12 days let alone 12 months to collect the data.

Now, why should AV behave like this?
Remember AV has the monopoly of the mooring market and it's not in the interest of AV(2010)PLC to allow that position to be weakened..... Either that or they are just incompetent. Whichever is the case, the outcome is the same. Zilch.