Archive for September, 2014
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
Life along the Kennet and Avon canal has of late adopted a gently surreal Kafkaesque tone.
The latest offering from the CART is a letter telling people they haven’t ‘moved through enough neighbourhoods’ in the last three months. it ends with a black edged obituary box stating “YOU ARE AT RISK OF LOSING YOUR BOAT’.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, CRT, enforcement, K and A Plan, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
This month, many boaters received a letter from CRT alleging that their boat was sighted in less than the “required” number of “neighbourhoods” between Bath and Foxhangers during the three months from June to August 2014. These letters amount to harassment. The K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan was proposed and consulted on as a voluntary agreement, and therefore CRT cannot now state that boaters are “required” to travel through a specific number of “neighbourhoods”. One of the letters is pictured below.
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Tags: complaints, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards, NABO, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, September 22nd, 2014
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has confirmed the suspicions of many that CRT had not intended to publish the ‘places’ maps in August. Boaters who wanted to find out more were nonplussed by the absence of announcements on the CRT web site.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, FOI request, liveaboards, meeting, mooring policy, NBTA, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
CRT have finally backed down in their latest high profile case against a long time liveaboard.
Some may be aware, or can catch up on t’net, of CRT’s attempts to get court sanction for 1. Validating the legality of, removing a license and issuing a Section 8 for breach of terms of their conditions and 2. trying to enforce a doctrine that says a boater with a home mooring must also follow the same rules as a boater without a home mooring.
This is stated in the Kennet and Avon Plan.
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Tags: Boats with home moorings., Tony Dunkley, Trent
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