User groups met BW’s Legal Director Nigel Johnson on 23 June to discuss changes to the Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers following the BW v Paul Davies judgement. NABO, RBOA and the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) were present, as were user groups like the IWA and British Marine Federation that favour BW’s attitude to continuous cruisers. BW Head of Enforcement Denise Yelland and Head of Boating Sally Ash were also present.
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Press Release 2: British Waterways
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011The following is a press release issued by British Waterways about the judgement in the case British Waterways v Paul Davies
1 April 2011
British Waterways welcomes today’s (31/3/11) Judgment made in Bristol County Court in which His Honour Deputy Judge O’Malley said he favoured BW’s interpretation of Section 17 of the British Waterways Act 1995 (relating to Continuous Cruising).Read more…
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011Kennet and Avon Boating Community mobile number
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011We have now acquired a phone. Text or call us on
07928 078208
If we need to ring or text you back we might use another number or an ‘unknown number’ – depending on what freebies we manage to get our hands on. Please circulate this number to any boaters you know who don’t have internet access!
Get organised – BW to go ahead with local mooring strategies in other areas.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010BW appears to be going ahead with local mooring strategies in other areas which it defines as ‘hotspots’ before the pilot local mooring strategy on the Kennet and Avon Canal has even been drawn up and implemented. As far as we know, these areas are the Lee and Stort, Birmingham, the Macclesfield Canal and the Southern Grand Union.
As we have discovered from the consultations and the subsequent local mooring strategy steering group meetings on the Kennet and Avon, local mooring strategies are likely to be targeted at boats without moorings and especially at liveaboard boaters without moorings.
Photo: Bob Naylor KAcanalTIMES.co.uk