The Authority served a High Court Interim Injunction against Roger (pictured) in an attempt to take a step closer to the removal of all liveaboards from Jenner's Basin (where boats have moored since 1922) at the western end of Thorpe Island in Norwich, but it failed, Martin Brooks tells us.
Can stay
Instead, in The High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division), Mr Justice Nicol ordered that they must not moor additional vessels at Jenner's Basin other than those present as of 10th March 2016—meaning those already moored at the Basin can stay, with the icing on the cake being that two extra boats can also be moored.
As to visiting boats at the basin, these are restricted to a maximum of four days stay.
It was in early December last year that 41 Notices had been served on those residents of Thorpe Island moored at the western end. They were ordered to leave by 18th December 2015 (Broads Authority to evict 41 boating families) and threatened with criminal prosecution if they did not comply, with some so alarmed at the Notice they understandably left.
Fighting back
Rather than knuckling under what they saw as the unfair might of the Broads Authority, the Save the Island Campaign was launched with the residents fighting back against whatever the Authority threw at them, even a High Court Hearing, costing it many hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money; but it proved to be worth it—the boaters are staying put.
This week the 41 Notices to Quit were withdrawn by the Authority, with David really having beaten Goliath.