I were to keep my boat on the Upper Medway it would cost me £235 per year for a license (from the EA website), albeit would be a pointless exercise as my boat would not fit under East Farleigh bridge.
I currently pay £600 per year on the Thames.
There are only a couple of ways this could go...
Either our license would drop due to less facilities - which would not help the EA budget much and lets face it - that aint going to happen.
Or perhaps they would equalize all the navigations, and guess what, yours could go up 300%.
My reading of the 20year plan is that is what they have in mind, lets face it they need the cash. (Again I freely admit that I could be wrong but certainly seems like that - has anybody else read it??)