Part A.

OPERATING PROPOSAL – SELF DRIVE HOLIDAY HIRE BOATS

Please try to fill out this form as fully as possible, but do ask your Business Boating Manager for assistance if required. We will use the information provided to assess your proposals for navigational safety, water resource and quality and other likely impacts on the waterway.

Upon receipt of your proposal, we will write and confirm receipt and give you an in principle decision within 6 weeks. Please note that if you may need to obtain agreements for using our property this may take much longer to finalise.

A1.
Customer details (the legal entity responsible for the boat and paying the business licence fee):
Company Name or the name of an individual:
(We cannot contract with a ‘trading name’ – only a registered company or an individual.)
Company Registration No:
(if applicable)
Name of principal contact:
Address for correspondence:
Contact Telephone No:
Email:
Website: (if applicable)
If you have a CRT customer no. please give it here (7 digit no. beginning with an 8):
Date of submission:
Proposed start date for business licence:
(This must always be the 1st day of any given month)
A2.
Details of your proposed operation
How many holiday hire boats are you intending to operate? (Holiday hire is any boat with overnight accommodation that is let out for periods of 12 hours or more).
Please describe your proposed business (we require this information to review and approve your application, so please consider this carefully and provide as much information as possible).
You will need a permanent mooring, where will the boats be moored? (site name and waterway).
Please include photos and a plan highlighting the exact mooring location and tick to confirm the supporting information is attached.
Please confirm if this is a new or existing mooring site:
1.  If this is a new mooring location, we will need to assess this as part of your Operating Proposal.
For the assessment of new mooring location there is a non-refundable fee of £90 inclusive of VAT (at standard rate) towards our administration and initial assessment costs. Cheques are to be made payable to The Canal & River Trust and posted to the address below.
2.  If this is an existing mooring location, we will require confirmation from the mooring provider.
Where will hirers board and disembark safely?
Where will the boats be serviced? (Cleaned, re-fuelled, water tanks filled, sewage tanks emptied)
What provision do you have for customer parking?
How will you dispose of any commercial waste generated by your business?
Are you aware that boats let out for hire need a non-private BSS certificate?
Tick to demonstrate that you understand that will need to prepare a detailed Handover Procedure to give hirers full instructions on how to navigate safely, how to operate waterway structures such as locks or lift bridges and how to use all the appliances on board? /
Do you have a British Marine Handover Audit Certificate?

If you already own the boat(s) intended to be used:

A3.
Boat details: (Please complete a new sheet for each boat).
Boat Name:
Index no:
Boat Type
(i.e. narrowboat, cabin cruiser).
Length in metres :
Beam in metres :

When your operation has been approved, you will need to submit:

·  Insurance: We do not require a copy of your current commercial insurance certificate, however we may carry out random checks on declarations.

·  Non-private BSS Certificate (or BSS Exemption Declaration form)

·  Full handover document or British Marine Handover Audit Certificate

Please email this form to:

Or post it to:

Canal and River Trust, Business Boating, Fearns Wharf, Neptune Street, Leeds, LS9 8PB

Please keep the form in Word format and avoid converting it to a PDF if at all possible.

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November 2017