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Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and
is now available on the Number 10 website at the following
address:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thames-Locks/

Your petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Prevent the
sale of River Thames lock keepers cottages by the EA

The Environment Agency (EA) have announced the proposed sale of
many Lock keepers cottages, which will result in the safety of
Boats navigating the river being compromised, and the flood
management service being adversely affected too.

This action is inevitably going to result in a great deal of
avoidable damage being caused to property and infrastructure
along the Upper Thames being damaged during periods of flood,
and increase the risk of human loss with regard to both
flooding and boating.

The EA have been asked to raise funds for DEFRA to pay an EU
fine, but there are alternative ways of doing this without
creating risk to life and property, such as mortgaging the
properties and using the rental income of said properties to
self fund the mortgages, leaving the irreplacable
infrastructure intact.

We need Lock keepers, and they need to live very close to the
River itself. There is no excuse for this action.

Thanks for submitting your petition.

-- the ePetitions team

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The scourge of Windsor, and notorious founder member of the 'Upper Thames Birchwood Massive' now outlawed by the EA and River pressure groups, currently planning a nice comfy retirement in the aft cabin of a Broom.
Now can anybody recommend any non-marking slippers?

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