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    Posted: 13 Sep 12 at 9:53pm
Were getting some great practical support from the local borough council and local businesses, and have some options for alternative waters, so fingers crossed!

but a bit more history is that the club house was built by public money (the then Severn Trent water authority) in 1984, so Celtic Lakes and seized a bit of everyone's taxes to boot
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Sounds like you've ended up having to deal with the sort of person Private Eye oft takes an interest in...
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Originally posted by winging it

these sturgeon are non native, they are imported and come from eurasian lakes.  reminds me of something, can't think what...


 
Can they deal with the 'killer shrimps' then?
If they grow to 6'+, what the hell can they find to eat in a small lake, other than a floundering Solo sailor?
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Is there any more news on what's next for the sailing club? Do you know what other venues are being considered if the club can't remain on its current water? Is there a preference in the club to move to a new lake and reform or merge with another club? There are a few nice looking lakes to the North of Leicester that might be good to form a new sailing club on if you could get permission such as Cropston Res or Swithland Res which would only be about 15 miles from Melton Mowbray.

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Originally posted by mmsc member

but a bit more history is that the club house was built by public money (the then Severn Trent water authority) in 1984, so Celtic Lakes and seized a bit of everyone's taxes to boot


so that asset would have moved out of public ownership at the time of privatization and ST Water presumably have 'sold' it to Celtic Lakes.

NB I'm not defending CL actions, which stink!
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An interesting development is the recent prosecution of the Celtic lakes Owner John Carney (the landlord who evicted the sailing club) by the Welsh Environment Agency for illegally stocking non native fish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-19704659

Just illustrates what sort of person we had to deal with, he denies it yet publishes pictures of fishermen catching them on his website
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So is the club in limbo or carrying on as normal?
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The club is currently in talks about another water, which is optimistic. But we'll have to see how many members we've kept
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Is there any more news? Are you able to say where your hoping to move too? I keep looking back here and on the clubs twitter account but there doesn't seam to have been any updates for a while.
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Originally posted by jeffers

Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by jeffers

There were lots of other issues with other waters users too

Mmm. My club leases the fishing rights as well, with a condition that they aren't exercised. Puts the subs up, but goodness it saves a lot of potential conflict.

We may have an opportunity to do that for our lake soon. It depends on where the lease negotiations go really.

the key thing with fishing rights is that  if you can get them  get them and manage them to the advantage of  ALL water users ... 

if  the water is reasonably stocked  and the fisherpersons  made aware   that  part of the reason the water is there and successfully managed is because of cooperation of all water users ...  it can be a boon in proving community use and  can be beneficial from  the point of view of  relatively friendly pairs of eyes around the water  almost 24/7 ... 

from a community use point of view  the more potential users you can get the better, as  you run the risk if  you  acquire all the rights but only run sailing that people paint it as toffs  only using the water for 6 hours a week ...   remember when dealing with  local councillors and the like all sense goes out the windows.
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