CRT Policy News

Some news about enforcement on the K&A

Monday, April 7th, 2014

There have been some developments in CRT’s enforcement practice along the K&A, according to conversations between boaters and CRT staff.

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Roving Mooring Permits bite the dust

Friday, March 7th, 2014

CRT has today conceded that its proposed roving mooring permits cannot be implemented lawfully and so has dropped the scheme.

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Petition reaches 5000 but CRT reneges on personal scrutiny of enforcement cases by Chief Executive

Monday, February 17th, 2014

A boat dweller who is facing court action by CRT was told that Richard Parry will not personally scrutinise every decision to take boat dwellers to court, whether against sick boaters or otherwise, according to a petition on the 38 degrees web site. This is in direct contradiction to the discussion between a K&A boater and Mr Parry.

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CRT advisory group recommends fewer visitor moorings

Thursday, February 13th, 2014

Mark Walton, who is the only liveaboard boater without a home mooring on CRT’s Navigation Advisory Group (NAG) has reported back on discussion about visitor moorings within the Licensing and Mooring sub group of NAG.

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Nearly 4,500 people pressure CRT to review enforcement against boaters who are ill

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

All enforcement cases involving boaters who are ill will be personally scrutinised by CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. This was announced following an online petition that nearly 4,500 people have signed. The petition calls on CRT to stop evicting boat dwellers who are disabled, elderly or vulnerable. You can read the petition and sign it here

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CRT web site misleads the public again about continuous cruising

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Sally Ash has posted a new article on CRT’s web site that seeks to discourage people from exercising the right to live on a boat without a home mooring that all CRT licence holders enjoy. “Spreading the word about the demands of living afloat” misinforms people, saying that the law does not allow them to “simply to move around within a small area” and blames continuous cruisers for spoiling everybody’s enjoyment of the waterways.

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CRT to review winter moorings following chaos of new system

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

CRT has informed one of its winter moorings customers that it is going to re-think its new system for winter moorings. The customer in question has not actually been able to use their winter mooring permit because they have not found anywhere that is not excluded from the system.

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K&A Partnership wants your views on plan for K&A – by Friday!

Monday, December 16th, 2013

The K&A Waterways Partnership wants your views on its draft plan for improving the K&A waterways over the next decade. Unfortunately it only wants your views if you can comment by 20th December.

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Disabled boater gets ‘reasonable adjustments’: CRT reviewing its equality compliance

Monday, December 9th, 2013

In what is believed to be the first decision of its kind, CRT has granted a disabled continuous cruiser’s request for ‘reasonable adjustments’ that he is entitled to under the Equality Act – but only for a temporary period.

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Parry to personally scrutinise every decision to take a boater to court

Monday, December 9th, 2013

Three boaters spoke to Richard Parry, CRT’s Chief Executive, when he visited Crofton last Wednesday. One of the most significant things that they learnt was that Mr Parry will personally scrutinise every decision to take boaters to court from January.

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