A boater attended the BW Annual General Meeting in Birmingham on 2 December and put the following question to the question and answer panel.
“When will BW stop acting beyond its powers in carrying out enforcement that makes liveaboard boaters homeless, given that Nigel Johnson’s evidence in Bristol County Court on 23 September shows that such enforcement is unlawful?”
We are offering a prize for the best caption to this photo of BW Marketing Manager Simon Salem talking to a liveaboard boater at the National Association of Boat Owners AGM in November. Email your entry to info@boatingcommunity.org.uk or post it as a comment before 24 December 2010 and we’ll give the best caption the great prize of a free lifetime subscription to this web site. We already have one entry: “Who is this woman?”
BW appears to be going ahead with local mooring strategies in other areas which it defines as ‘hotspots’ before the pilot local mooring strategy on the Kennet and Avon Canal has even been drawn up and implemented. As far as we know, these areas are the Lee and Stort, Birmingham, the Macclesfield Canal and the Southern Grand Union.
As we have discovered from the consultations and the subsequent local mooring strategy steering group meetings on the Kennet and Avon, local mooring strategies are likely to be targeted at boats without moorings and especially at liveaboard boaters without moorings.
Photo: Bob Naylor KAcanalTIMES.co.uk
We have received this messsage from Peter Atwill on Gospel Belle:
The Carol Service at Dundas Basin on the 4th December at
6.00 is cancelled this year. The weather has beaten us, we cannot take the
chance of any one slipping and hurting themselves.
We really appreciate it if you could let any one else know you see who might
have been intending to go. Many Thanks.
The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is holding one of its regular work parties on Saturday 5th December. Meet at the Trust’s cafe at Bradford lock at 10am. All are welcome. At the last work day the volunteers concentrated on gardening and tidying the area around the lock.