Your Scheme

The purpose of this section is to provide a summary of our requirements and other recommendations for schemes that will connect to our network.This includes technical and design considerations. We also give other guidance from a broader perspective to help you develop your scheme including examples of good practice and references to other main statutory requirements for mooring schemes including links to useful documents and other websites.

The subjects covered in this section are typical of marina development but this is not an exhaustive list and there may be other critical issues relating specifically to your site. We assume that the developer already has a basic understanding of the construction, property development and planning processes. Its emphasis therefore is on aspects specific to marinas.

In order to complete a Network Access Agreement with us, we will assess whether your scheme meets our requirements and also whether we have the capacity to accommodate it on the local waterway.

In order to build your scheme you will also require consent from other statutory bodies, the main one being the Local Planning Authority (LPA). To help you more fully understand how the planning process works, you can refer to some previous planning applications via this link. As a statutory consultee, we will be asked by the LPA to comment on your scheme and we hope to be able to lend support to your planning application. To do this, we strongly encourage you to include the recommendations and good practice in this section of the website (and not simply meet our minimum requirements). If you do, we also believe you stand a better chance of securing planning consent.

Next level links:

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> Construction
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