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Environment Agency took boaters to court over illegal occupation of riverbank for several years.
River Great Ouse: bridge heights, locks, overhead power lines and facilities.
Check what safety requirements and insurance are needed to use a boat on UK rivers, canals, or at sea - boat safety certificates, safety regulations and equipment, disposing of old flares
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Find out which locations you need to submit an ‘arrived’ export declaration at before moving goods and where to take the goods if they need to be checked.
Advice for British nationals on staying safe when travelling by sea
Location: the Dover Strait.
Location: Off St. Andrews Beach, Fife, Scotland.
Find the Safety and Security (S&S) GB location code to use in your entry summary declaration when importing goods into Great Britain.
Location: River Thames, England.
Location: Near the North Shipwash Buoy, to the north of Harwich Haven Authority jurisdictional limits on the east coast of England.
Location: On the St Joseph Reef off the west coast of Corsica.
Location: Off Siloth, Solway Firth, Scotland.
Location: Lower Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.
UKSR LYS advice notes for those who wish to have their vessel projects surveyed.
Location: Loch Ryan, south-west Scotland.
Location: 19 miles south east of Harwich, England.
Location: Bay of Biscay.
Location: 10.5 miles west north west of Tintagel, Cornwall, England.
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