Archive for January, 2013
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
First it was the Kennet and Avon
Then it was the Lee and Stort
and now…. It’s the South East waterways, the southern Grand Union and the Oxford Canal. Sally Ash is on the rampage again with another ill-thought out multi-layered deceit to appease hire boat company interests.
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Tags: enforcement, grand union, Moorings Consultation, penalty charges, Sally Ash, se waterways consultation, visitor moorings, VM
Posted in Moorings Consultation, News | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Pulteney Practice, a doctor’s surgery on Pulteney Street in Bath are actively seeking out new NHS patient registrations. We encourage all boaters to be registered with a GP as it simplifies access to health services.
This practice is particularly convenient for the canal in Bath. They are also affiliated with the Surgery at Bathampton.
Phone number for both practices: 01225 464187
website: www.pulteney.co.uk
Please let us know if you experience any difficulty registering as a resident of a boat.
Tags: doctors, NHS access, NHS registration
Posted in Health | No Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Appparently Sally Ash is less than happy with the lovely film Boater’s Voices, made by Wiltshire Council and, for me at least, evidence that there may be summer again.
She has written to Wiltshire Council complaining that CRT’s voice was not heard, the strident and piercing voice that can be heard in any of Ms Ash’s official outpourings, and is absent from this film.
Her email can be read here.
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Tags: Boaters Voices, CRT misinformation, Sally Ash, Wiltshire County Council
Posted in News | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Sally Ash
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, News | No Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
An enforcement officer has been forced to reconsider ordering an injured boater to move within 48 hours, and has agreed that the boater can stay on a visitor mooring for the time that a doctor has recommended for the injury to heal.
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Tags: enforcement, mooring, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Health, Letters to BW and others, Lifestyle, Mooring, News | No Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
The Post Office is proposing to close its branch in The Shambles, Bradford on Avon and replace it with a counter in Budgen’s. This is likely to mean the end of the Poste Restante service that so many boaters rely on to receive mail promptly. There is a consultation by the Post Office that ends on Friday 1st February.
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Tags: Bradford-on-Avon, Letters to BW and others, Lifestyle, liveaboards, mail, Post Office, Poste Restante
Posted in Community, Lifestyle, News | No Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
Vaughan Welch, one of the four private boater representatives elected to the CRT Council, has recently written an article encouraging IWA members to spy on boaters who comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Harassment, Inland Waterways Association, liveaboards, Section 17, Vaughan Welch, Waterways Act 1995, West Midlands
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Mooring, News, Opinion | 3 Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, meeting, mooring policy, NABO, Sally Ash, Section 17, U-turn, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, News, The Law | 2 Comments »