CRT
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
Posted in CRT Policy News | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in A-Featured Articles, Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, News, The Law | 3 Comments »
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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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Three boaters recently complained about derogatory language and inaccurate statements regarding boaters without home moorings in one of the Canal and River Trust’s briefing documents, TT06, which is on the Canal and River Trust’s web site. We publish their complaint below:
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, complaints, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards
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Sunday, August 5th, 2012
An enforcement officer’s project that consisted of intensive enforcement action against a selected group of liveaboards without home moorings provides more information about CRT/BW’s enforcement strategy. The “Final Report into non-compliance of British Waterways Continuous Cruiser regulations on the South Oxford Canal” shows that CRT/BW is sending enforcement letters to boaters that are designed to pressure them to travel longer distances, without telling them what distance is considered acceptable to avoid enforcement action.
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Tags: CC1, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, liveaboards, Pre-CC1, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, FOI Act requests, News | 6 Comments »
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
The CRT Trustees decided recently that Nigel Johnson, the Legal and Corporate Services Director, will retire in 2014 because “We have decided that in the longer term the Trust does not require the expertise of a full time Legal Director”. His post will not be replaced. We have also learnt that Head of Boating Sally Ash has had responsibility for moorings shifted away from her, with her team being shrunk to cover policy on boating and mooring only.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, liveaboards, mooring policy, Nigel Johnson, Sally Ash
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Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Liveaboard boater Simon Greer has started an online petition for security for towpath boat dwellers. You can sign the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/447/522/923/security-for-towpath-boat-dwellers/
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, petition, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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