Residents living by a picturesque marina have been ordered to pay £10,000 for a new fence - to stop them helping boat users with their shopping.
People living in Albion Mill in Worcester have been banned from passing bags over the existing railings, which boat residents do to avoid a 20-minute walk carrying heavy bags.
People living in Albion Mill in Worcester have been banned from passing bags over the existing railings, which boat residents do to avoid a 20-minute walk carrying heavy bags.
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00:00Hello, I'm Tony Woss. I'm a resident boater here at Diglis Basin and our boat is moored
00:12next to Albion Mill. This is the fence that divides us and causes the problems and the
00:18issues that we have at the moment. So basically we have no access to here apart from a very
00:23long 400 metre walk from the access gate, which is the end of this pontoon. Before that
00:28we have to walk all the way around the marina from our car park, which is probably getting
00:32on for a 10 minute walk, half a kilometre, to get to that gate, which is locked and with
00:36a key, so only boaters can get in and out. If we don't do that we have to drive our car
00:42in and pass our shopping or other heavy items over the fence, which is all we do, and then
00:48we drive out. We don't park here, we just leave and go back to our car park. Obviously
00:53this is incredibly inconvenient and also it has implications for health and safety
00:58because if the emergency service were required to get to us it would be an absolute nightmare,
01:02bearing in mind that they would have to get through a locked gate which they don't have
01:05the key.