Archive for June, 2015
Monday, June 29th, 2015
The Floating Cinema, which is currently travelling along the K&A to Bristol, is showing Wiltshire Council’s 30 minute film Boaters Voices this week.
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Tags: arts and culture, Boaters Voices, Bradford-on-Avon, Caen Hill, continuous cruising, Floating Cinema, liveaboards, Wiltshire County Council
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Monday, June 29th, 2015
Here is the internal CRT document that outlines the process by which a customer is required to take out a short term licence and the steps from there to a Section 8 action.
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Tags: 14 day rule, CC monitoring, continuous cruising, enforcement, MAC, monitoring process, Section 17, Section 8, short term licenses, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Once upon a time there was a farmer, let’s call him Richard Head. Farmer Head was in the lucky position of having a short section of disused canal on his land. There was also a bunch of Old Men with long beards who thought this canal was the Best Thing in the World and wanted to see it restored to its former glory.
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Tags: Radford Mill, Richard Fox, Somerset Coal Canal
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
CRT’s new policy on boaters without home moorings effective from 1st May 2015 has already meant that many boaters have had renewal of their licence for 12 months refused and a six-month or three -month licence offered instead.
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Tags: 3 month licence, 6 month licence, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, licence renewal, liveaboards, NBTA, refusal to renew licence, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
The Gypsy, Traveller, Boater & Roma Community Support Service in BaNES, run by Julian House, is on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/GRTBSupport
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Tags: BaNES, continuous cruising, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, traveller's rights
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Sally Ash, who as CRT/BW Head of Boating did so much to ruin the lives of boat dwellers without home moorings, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
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Tags: APCO, continuous cruising, drifters, Drifters Leisure Limited, Ed Helps, hire boat companies, James Griffin, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, lo, Local Mooring Strategy, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Tim Parker
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
If you have been served with a Section 8 and CRT is continuing court action against you, you need to make a request to the Court for your case to be stayed pending the result of the appeal in the case of CRT v Jones.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Sue Stapleton on nb Eagle, who at present travels mainly between Hungerford and Devizes, has recently become a Waterways Chaplain with Workplace Matters.
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Tags: continuous cruising, food bank, food parcels, liveaboards, Waterways Chaplaincy, welfare, welfare benefits
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