We received a message from the police in Hungerford that some bikes were found in Kintbury. They may have been stolen from boats. Here’s the message and details of who to contact if you think they are yours:
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Continuous Cruisers
The original reason this website was set up, the campaign by British Waterways to remove all liveaboard boaters from the Kennet and Avon who have no permanent mooring. The so-called continuous cruisers.
Bikes found in Kintbury
Saturday, March 16th, 2013Boat burglaries: police patrol the towpath
Thursday, March 14th, 2013BaNES Council want to hear from liveaboard boaters
Monday, March 4th, 2013Bath and NE Somerset Council want to hear from liveaboard boaters on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the River Avon. If you live on your boat without a home mooring, and spend some of your time between Dundas and Hanham, or if you live on a mooring in this area, the Council wants you to tell them about your needs and requirements. Please email scrutiny@bathnes.gov.uk by March 28th 2013.
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K&A boaters action group next meeting 11th March, Devizes
Monday, March 4th, 2013K and A boaters’ action group meeting 11th February, Seend
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013The next meeting of the K and A boaters’ action group will be on Monday 11th February at 7.30pm in Seend. If you have some time to contribute over the next few months (or longer) defending our rights as liveaboards; doing constructive things like towpath tidies; engaging in dialogue – where possible – with CRT etc, then we would like you to be in the group.
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Another CRT resignation ahead of Parliamentary scrutiny of waterways partnerships
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013Councillor Fleur de Rhé-Philipe, Chair of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership, resigned this week. Tamsin Phipps, who represents canoeists on the Partnership, is now acting as the temporary Chair. The Partnership is about to release its review of the K&A local mooring strategy proposals.
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Can’t Really Trust’em…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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