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New Grants to Bridge Operating Costs Gap? Commercial Boat Operators Association Newsletter issue 6 · Spring 2010 In this issue p2 Wharves in the news p4 Investment by Cory p5 CBOA challenges ‘decline’ p11 BW to be a trust? NEWS p15 Crossrail takes to the water New grants to bridge operating costs gap? Grants for operating costs for water value relates to each road journey, successful, the grant would be paid freight are now on offer from the which themselves are assessed at in arrears, based on what actually Department for Transport, from 1 different values: a mile of standard happened. April this year. motorway is valued at 7p, compared Grants can be paid to keep existing with non-A roads at £1.43. The grants aim to bridge any gap traffics on water if they are between road and barge costs. Operating grants can be given for up threatened with switching to road. They are spelled out in a new DfT to three years and can be renewed. Both operating grants and FFGs booklet. So for example if road They can be for as little as £10,000. can be paid for the same traffic. costs are £6.50 per tonne and Unlike FFGs where grants are paid However, the environmental benefits barge costs £8 per tonne (including upfront, operating grant applications cannot be used twice and it is up to handling and onward road cost to can be based on some degree of the applicant to decide how the split final destination) the DfT will pay uncertainty. This is because the should be made the barge operator up to £1.50 per grant is paid in arrears, when the “We’ve long pointed out it was tonne to bridge the gap. Government can see the traffic has illogical for the Government to give The grants are subject to a cap on been kept off the road. grants to help traffic off the road and the environmental benefits of not For example, a barge operator onto rail but to deny water freight using lorries. They are assessed in hoping to carry 25,000 tonnes the same help,” says CBOA, “and the same way as Freight Facility for each of three years can apply we welcome the fact we now have Grants for capital expenditure. The for a grant for 75,000 tonnes. If more of a level playing field.” countryside. They say that since the CBOA is now looking at where the mining will not be far from the Aire coal might be loaded – and which and Calder Navigation barges could barge operator could take it. be the better solution, particularly if CBOA has also spoken to the local the coal is to be sent to Ferrybridge planning authority and to power station. HJ Banks. In one of its more unusual requests, CBOA is seeing if it can help the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) produce a canal-based transport solution for a proposed open cast coal mine in Yorkshire. CPRE is objecting to the HJ Banks planning application, partly on the grounds it will The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England can be found at www.cpre.org.uk involve lots of lorry journeys in the CBOA News | Spring 2010 page 2 From the chairman We provide a full report later on capital costs grant scheme. but it is amazing that the statistics CBOA is delighted that some indicated a tonnage decline over 16 safeguarded Thames wharves years and ignored the last 5 years’ are being bought from property 16% increase. This – inevitably – led companies by the navigation to the Government asking the wrong authority as part of a partnership question: “What can be done to between the navigation, local and reverse the decline?” They should transport authorities. And we are have asked: “What can be done to very pleased to see Leeds following build on progress to date?” this lead with its proposals not only In our formal reply, CBOA urged that to safeguard wharves but also to DfT take on responsibility for the allocate waterside land for industrial freight waterways – just as it does uses which enhance the prospects for the road and rail freight tracks. of water freight. How else can there be joined up John Dodwell, Chairman Government thinking? CBOA has spent much of the last The new operating costs grant We apologise that in the last issue we did few months on the Government’s scheme from DfT is welcome and not credit “Coastal Shipping” with the photo of the The Pride of Brailia which takes 80 ‘Waterways for Everyone’ gets rid of the anomaly that rail teu containers from Goole to Duisburg on consultation document about the could get operating grants but water the Rhine. We also apologise to The Boating future of the inland waterways. could not. How useful the grants Association for not mentioning their part in the production of “The Skippers Guide” to Many observers feel it looked too will be remains to be seen but a key leisure boaters on the River Trent and the Aire much at the BW waterways. That is factor is that as this grant is made and Calder Navigation. In gently pointing this so in our case, with the great efforts after tonnage is moved, there is no out, their chairman Colin Tuck (who spent made elsewhere by our Members need for those hard to predict future all his working life in road transport) said “I fully support your campaign for the use of and others not getting a mention. movements inherent in the waterborne freight where suitable.” Wharves in the news Leeds leads on waterways resources and interested people B W-owned land in Skelton Grange Leeds City Council’s proposals to and organisations, including CBOA Road and Skelton Grange Wharf safeguard certain canal wharves and its members, were invited to on the Aire and Calder Navigation on the Aire and Calder navigation comment. should be added to the list. for freight use and to earmark These proposals echo what has One of the first to respond was waterside land for industrial happened on the tidal Thames Goole-based RMS Europe, who purposes was warmly welcomed by where 50 wharves downstream for many years have struggled to the CBOA, who want other councils of Wandsworth have been given encourage the use of canal traffic to to follow their lead. protected status. the main Yorkshire/Nottingham cities The council asked: ‘Do you agree In supporting the proposals CBOA that were once served by thriving that railway sidings and canal said having a canal without wharves canal transport. Dredging problems wharves which are, or could be was like having a motorway on the Doncaster/Rotherham stretch used to enable the transportation without access and exit junctions of the South Yorkshire navigation of minerals and/or waste materials - nowhere to get on or off. They have prevented them from moving, by rail and canal, should be said it was particularly pleasing as in the past, 10,000 tonnes a year safeguarded for that purpose?’ that the Leeds proposals did not to Rotherham and in so doing taking 350 lorry journeys off the road. The question formed part of the just cover particular wharves but proposals for the Leeds Natural also proposed the use of waterside Mike Harrison, the Commercial Resources and Waste Local land for waste and other activities, manager, said RMS was in contact Development framework. This providing a water freight option. with major importers of products looked at planning ahead for their They added that the Total Oil wharf suitable for movement by canal to aggregate, waste and other natural at Crosse Green Industrial Park, the the Leeds area. Goole is directly CBOA News | Spring 2010 page 3 Wharves in the news connected to the Aire and Calder Agency project to improve water them to Kingston-on-Thames wharf canal and by the New Junction canal quality on the Lee Navigation some 75,000 tonnes a year would to the South Yorkshire navigation. through to the Olympics site. More be removed from the congested And Goole is some 50 miles from the than 30,000 tones of dredgings streets of south London. sea. If importers and exporters could were removed by barges at the In granting the appeal against bring their products further inland wharf – including five safes with residential moorings the planning they would reduce their carbon holes in the back. inspector said there were concerns footprint, benefiting the people of And last year Thames Gas used it at the loss of a significant portion of Leeds. during maintenance work.. a facility that could be used in the “There is no reason why goods In addition an energy-from-waste future for water-borne freight. cannot be moved around the coast plant by the river at Edmonton PLA to buy Thames wharves by sea to Goole eliminating further is likely to be enlarged and from property companies road miles/lorry journeys,” he consideration given to compacting added. “Surely Leeds does now the refuse and removing it by barge The Port of London Authority has have sufficient waterside housing rather than lorry. Essex wharf would reached an agreement with the and it must be time for commercial be suitable for this. owners of Peruvian wharf that either enterprise to re-emerge from the the current owners or the PLA ‘dark ages’.” bring the wharf back into use. If it’s the PLA they will buy Wharves under threat in Essex… the land at wharf prices. They Strong opposition has been raised are now looking at how to to an application to build 144 flats reactivate Orchard wharf.
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