BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests
It’s happening now. At the moment much discussion is going on about the corporate stance, both published and secret, of British Waterways and we are getting material flooding in. It will be heard here. The results of Freedom of Information Act requests will be also be aired here. Keep them coming.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
BW plans to carry out the consultation on the Kennet and Avon Local Mooring Strategy between the end of May and the end of September 2012, according to a Freedom of Information response from BW.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Boat dwellers in Oxford are under threat from a group called the Unlawfully Moored Boats Enforcement Group, made up of Oxford City Council, the Environment Agency, British Waterways and Thames Valley Police. Oxford City Council has just given this group £44,000.
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Tags: British Waterways, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, liveaboards, Oxford
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
On 28 November 2011, BW’s Damian Kemp informed members of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group by email that there would be no more meetings and that BW would complete the Mooring Strategy in-house. Yet this message has turned out to be entirely dishonest – BW had already planned in September 2011 that the October 2011 meeting was to be the last.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
British Waterways recently sent round a circular email advertising their winter moorings, with the advice that boaters, if unable to move due to the canal being frozen, would have to ask their local patrol officer for permission to remain.
This prompted a FoI request regarding the numbers of craft with icebreaking capabilities in BW’s possession, and the number of hours for which they were deployed in this capacity during the winter of 2010-2011
BW have now responded:
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Tags: 14 day rule, BW, FOI, Ice, Letters to BW and others, Overstaying
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
BW recently released a draft summary of the Local Mooring Strategy proposals to the Steering Group and the representatives of unaffiliated boaters on the Group responded to these draft proposals this week. BW has asked for responses from Steering Group members prior to putting the finalised proposals out to consultation. Watch out for boaters’ meetings soon to make sure you have your say about it. BW’s summary of the proposals and the unaffiliated boaters’ response is below.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Damian Kemp, BW’s Project Officer who chaired the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group and did the legwork for the 2009 consultations on National Mooring Policy, Local Mooring Strategies and the now discredited Lee and Stort Moorings Managament Plan, has a new job.
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Tags: Damian Kemp, Lee and Stort, Local Mooring Strategy, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
After a delay of around 15 months BW has finally coughed up some information about changes to its “continuous cruising” enforcement procedure.
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Tags: CC1, CC2, continuous cruising, enforcement team, FOI requests, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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