FOI Act requests
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
CRT is making plans for a second dry winter following the driest year on recent record during 2017, according to a Freedom of Information response.
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Tags: Adam Comerford, CRT, CRT Trustees, DEFRA, drought, Environment Agency, Freedom of Information Act, water conservation, water levels, water resources
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
On 14th February 2017 the Waterways Ombudsman stated in a case report (Case no 933) that CRT intended in the coming weeks to publish “illustrative cruising patterns” for liveaboard boaters with school age children. In the Navigation Advisory Group meeting of 13th February 2017, former Head of Boating Mike Grimes stated: “We’re looking at putting together and publish soon some example compliant movement patterns that boaters with children could look at to help inform their movement patterns”.
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Tags: Bathampton School, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, FOI requests, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Mike Grimes, Richard Parry, school, Waterways Ombudsman
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Saturday, August 29th, 2015
Following a Freedom of Information request, CRT has published a list and an interactive map of kilometre lengths for all of the waterways that it owns or manages.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, kilometre lengths, 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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Friday, March 29th, 2013
A recent Freedom of Information response shows that a decision was made in March 2012 to focus enforcement on boats moving 5km or less.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI requests, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Following a Freedom of Information request via www.whatdotheyknow.com, a boater has obtained the job descriptions and person specifications for most of the CRT/ BW enforcement team, apart from the job description for Enforcement and Licensing Manager Denise Yelland. This includes information about the numbers of staff in each position in different waterway areas.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement team, FOI requests, liveaboards, Sally Ash
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
This web site’s Editor received a letter from CRT recently threatening to take court proceedings for libel against the web site because of statements made in articles revealing and commenting about BW/CRT’s relationship with hire boat holiday brokers Drifters Leisure Limited.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, FOI request, hire boat companies, libel, liveaboards, Robin Evans, Sally Ash
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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
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