BW consults about consultation with stakeholders

Have you got views about the long-term moorings BW rents out?  BW has sent out a press release about its forthcoming consultation on moorings. 

Scheduled to get underway in May, the consultation will include a review of the current mooring tenders trial as well as alternative options put forward by boating interest groups for the pricing and allocation of vacancies.

The six page pre-consultation document  [viewable here - PDF] has been sent to boating interest groups and everyone who has written to BW about the tendering process since the launch of the trial. 

Responses are requested by 31 March to allow for them to be incorporated into the main public consultation document.

I guess this is a consultation about a consultation.  In diplomacy they call it 'talks about talks'.

I get the impression this is about how to set the fairest rate for long-term moorings.  Or in the words of the pre-consultation document:

to build stakeholder understanding of the factors that determine BW policy and procedures for the running of its directly managed moorings...

I'm not sure if it will address other things - such as the provision of facilities, or what happens to security of tenure for groups of people who take it upon themselves to improve facilities.

But then, my eyes glaze over whenever I hear or read the modern jargon word 'stakeholders'.  I hate that word.  It's supposed to mean 'those people that the subject affects', but it really means nothing. 

We are all stakeholders, even if we simply dream of having a boat one day.  You can stake your claim to the consultation by emailing consultation@britishwaterways.co.uk

Comments

[Nick Atty]

It makes several references to - I think - Mooring stake holders.

These are very useful people, if their fingers don't get bashed.