CRT Policy News
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Just hours before the K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) was due to hold its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT issued a press release detailing its plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) is to hold the first meeting of its Moorings Sub-Group on 26th October, it was announced yesterday.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Mark Stephens, meeting, Sally Ash
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Three liveaboard boaters attended the CRT Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 27 September to register their objection to the joint CRT and IWA attack on the rights of boaters without home moorings.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, meeting, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
The Canal and River Trust is holding its first Annual Meeting in Birmingham on Thursday 27th September 2012 at 2pm – 4pm. All customers of the Canal and River Trust, boat licence holders and users of the waterways can attend. To book your place, email annual.meeting@canalrivertrust.org.uk by 20th September and give the details requested below.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, liveaboards, meeting
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
CRT’s plans for the consultation on the K and A Local Mooring Strategy have changed again. A sub-group of the Local Waterway Partnership (formerly the Partnership Board) will review the mooring strategy and will decide what consultation is required. CRT claims this sub-group will be “independent”. At the final meeting of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group in October 2011 it was agreed that the Local Waterway Partnership would review the mooring strategy. BW then unilaterally disbanded the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group before its work was complete. However, at that point BW still intended to carry out a full public consultation.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, hire boat companies, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in A-Featured Articles, BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, FOI Act requests, Mooring Strategy Committee, News, The Law | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
We thought it would be nice for those of us who are interested in Drifters and their contribution to the boat hire industry to see how well they are doing their job.
It is obvious to anyone concerned with marketing tourism and holidays that the first port of call these days for prospective customers are the internet search engines and, in particular, Google. So we ran a ‘rank check’ on certain keywords with the website www.drifters.co.uk to see exactly how well they are doing their job.
Here are the results for some popular search terms.
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Tags: boat hire, Drifters Leisure Limited, drifters.co.uk, Sally Ash
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The CRT has changed the Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring without any consultation with those likely to be affected. The change moves the Guidance even further away from what was intended by Parliament when it passed Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
CRT Chief Executive Robin Evans has responded negatively to the boaters’ complaint which we published below about the content of Trustees’ briefing TT06. He has declined to end the use of the term “continuous moorers” and “CMs” and has failed to address most of the issues in the complaint. We publish his reply here:
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, complaints, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards, Robin Evans
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