Middle Level Navigation – Annual Registration Fees for 2025

Our Navigation Advisory Committee has supported a 3.2% inflationary increase in our annual vessel registration charges for 2025. We brought forward the decision by a month to enable boaters and the three marinas on our system additional time to plan for the 2025 season. Forms and information available on our website will be updated in due course.

We have taken the decision to move away from mirroring the Environment Agency fee levels as we feel that we have sufficient experience now to form our own assessment. This does not change or threaten the Anglian Pass partnership.

We hope our loyal boaters appreciate our efforts to make incremental, modest and affordable improvements in our system? We recognise there is a way to go, particularly in terms of facilities and moorings. To get where we all want to be, we need additional registered vessels bringing in additional income alongside a resurgence of the volunteer and third sector endeavour that was so beneficial in past decades and that other navigations benefit from.

Whilst our ambition is to ensure an affordable and viable navigation experience for our valued boaters, we are facing major investment requirements ahead in terms of lock gate replacements and managing navigation depth. As this programme of investment becomes more mature, we will share and model what it may mean for fees over the medium term.

Visitor licence fees for 2025 will be determined early in the New Year.

Paul Burrows, Chief Executive

18^th December 2024