Waiting List Terms and Conditions

WAITING LISTS FOR SCOTTISH CANALS’ MOORING SITES

British Waterways trading as Scottish Canals (SC) operates moorings sites across Scotland. 

To apply for a mooring site please visit our website and complete the mooring enquiry form. 

If we do not have a vacant mooring, we will add you to the waiting lists for your chosen sites. 

Our website www.scottishcanals.co.uk  has information on mooring sites, mooring rates and contact details for our local waterway offices. Please note that we only run waiting lists for Scottish Canals mooring sites.

We can accept names on a waiting list for a maximum number of two SC sites per canal as set out in the terms and conditions below. 

You can’t give your place on a waiting list to anyone else, but you can change your boat details, provided you tell us in writing before you do it. 

You can also change any of your selected mooring sites by withdrawing your interest from a site waiting list in writing and making a fresh application. To bring a boat onto the canal you must have a mooring offer from us.

Waiting lists are ordered by date of application. 

Offers are made to the next suitable applicant / vessel, which may not be the next on the list. We will make a maximum of one offer per mooring site. 

If you do not accept an offer, we will remove you from the waiting list for that site. 

If you accept an offer from us, the mooring fee is payable even if you do not move your boat to the site by the agreed start date. 

To bring a boat onto the canal you must have insurance and a Boat Safety Certificate (in addition to a mooring offer). 

Our boating/getting-started on the canals webpage has essential information for boaters bringing a boat onto our canals. 

If you have any queries, please contact the moorings team moorings@scottishcanals.co.uk 

 

WAITING LIST TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Definitions: 

‘Scottish Canals, SC, we, us, our’, means British Waterways trading as Scottish Canals, its successors, and assignees and any of its employees or other persons authorised by British Waterways to act for it.

‘You’ means the owner, shared owners or interested parties of the boat.

‘Mooring Site’ includes the mooring and land and water adjacent to the mooring that is in our ownership or control.

‘Mooring’ means the water space at the mooring site temporarily allocated to you by us for the mooring of the boat during the period of the agreement, subject to section 2.1 of our Mooring Agreement Terms and Conditions.

‘Boat(s)’ means the boat(s) or vessel(s) named in the Mooring Enquiry/Waiting List Application Form(s).

‘In Writing’ means by e-mail.

  1. You can make an application to be on the waiting list for a maximum of two sites per canal. You can make applications to more than one Scottish canal.  Your positions on each mooring site waiting list are independent of each other. 
  2. If you wish to make an application for more than one boat, you must make a different application for each boat. 
  3. Waiting lists are ordered by date of application.
  4. We will refuse ‘live-aboard’ applications for non-residential moorings. 
  5. Anyone wishing to live aboard their boat must apply for a residential mooring.
  6. We will refuse applications for leisure moorings from customers on the residential mooring waiting lists.
  7. When a mooring becomes available, we will generally offer you the mooring on a ‘next on the list’ basis, but we reserve the right to exercise our discretion, depending on the circumstances, for example:  
    1. smaller boats may be allocated before larger boats depending on the size of the mooring available. 
    2. we may need to give priority to boats requiring relocation from other Scottish Canals mooring sites. 
    3. the condition of the boat at the time of the offer may be unsuitable for the mooring site.
    4. for health and safety reasons; or
    5. for operational reasons.
  8. We will make you an offer by e-mail when a mooring becomes available. Once we make you an offer of a mooring you have seven days to accept or decline. If you wish to accept our offer you must do so by e-mail. Mooring fees apply from the agreed start date and not when you move your boat to the mooring. Mooring contracts are dated from the 1st of the month. 
  9. When you accept our offer of a mooring, it can only be allocated to the person who has made the application. If the vessel has multiple owners, this must be stated at first licensing.
  10. You cannot purchase a mooring with the boat and you may not assign it to any person or transfer it with the sale of the boat.
  11. Any offer we make is conditional on you having a valid Navigation Licence for the boat before it is moved to the mooring.
  12. If you do not accept our offer within the specified time limit our offer will lapse.  For the avoidance of doubt, the following actions will be treated as declining/refusing our offer: 
    1. you fail to respond to our offer within the time limit, or
    2. you fail to return the completed Mooring Permit Application Form and payment within the time limit.
  13. A maximum of one offer will be made to you for each waiting list you join. You may join a maximum of two waiting lists per canal.     
  14. If you decline/refuse an offer your name will be removed from the waiting list for that location. If you fail to respond to a mooring offer within the seven day time limit your name will be removed from all waiting lists for that canal. 
  15. You cannot give your place on a waiting list to anyone else, but you can change your boat details, provided you tell us in writing.  We will substitute the new boat for the old boat in the same positions on the lists.
  16. You must notify us in writing if you need to change any of the details of your application, such as contact details, home address, boat details or the date you require the mooring from. 
  17. From time to time, we will confirm your continued interest in the mooring sites by e-mailing you. If you do not respond to this email within 14 days, we will assume that that you are no longer interested, and we will remove your name from all our waiting lists.   No reminders will be issued after our first contact.
  18. If you are on our waiting lists but wish to change any of your chosen sites, you must withdraw your interest in the sites you no longer want in writing and make a new application for your new mooring site preferences.  For the avoidance of doubt, you will lose your position on the waiting lists from which you have withdrawn your interest and be allocated new positions for your new mooring site preferences.
  19. We reserve the right to close a waiting list to new applications. 
  20. You must be 18 years or over to make an application.