Moorings Consultation
Well the mooring consultation periods are finished.
Deep breath folks….. It’s not over yet by a long way.
If, as is believed, the local strategy is a done deal British Waterways are now moving into forming the steering groups.
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
A summary and report on the responses to the consultation on the Towpath Mooring Plan for the K&A west of Devizes was published by CRT yesterday. This showed that those who responded to the consultation strongly support the proposals.
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Tags: Bathampton Parish Council, Claverton Parish Council, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash, Section 17, Valley Parishes Alliance, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Responses to the consultation on the Towpath Mooring Plan for the K&A west of Devizes have to be in by 29th November. The proposals will affect all boaters using the K&A between Bath and Devizes. If you haven’t filled in a consultation questionnaire, please do so now. Below is an example consultation response with some explanatory notes to help you gather your thoughts.
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Tags: 14 day rule, Bathampton Parish Council, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Moorings Consultation, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
There will be an extra boaters meeting on Saturday 2nd November, 12-2pm at the Three Swans, Hungerford to discuss, ask and answer questions about the local mooring strategy consultation. The meeting is organised by boaters, for boaters. Please tell all the boaters you know about it, because we are unable to leaflet boats to advertise this meeting.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, liveaboards, meeting, mooring consultation, mooring strategy committee
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Sunday, September 15th, 2013
The consultation by CRT on the Towpath Mooring Plan for the K&A between Bath top lock and Devizes has started. Meetings organised by boaters for boaters to discuss this and answer any questions you have about the Mooring Plan, consultation and questionnaire will be held at:
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Tags: consultation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Matthew Symonds, meeting, Moorings Consultation
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Friday, August 30th, 2013
The consultation on the local mooring strategy for the Kennet and Avon west of Devizes will run from today Friday 30th August 2013 until Friday 29th November 2013. Electronic copies of the consultation response form will be sent to all holders of boat licences who are on the K&A where CRT holds their email address. Where no email contact exists CRT has agreed to send a paper copy to the address that you use for your boat licence. If you don’t receive a copy, paper copies will also be available from the following places:
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Tags: liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, meeting, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
The CRT South East visitor mooring consultation ends this Friday 1st March. Please respond if you can. Below we publish an example response to the consultation, apart from comments on individual locations.
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash, South East, visitor moorings
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
Councillor 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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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring policy, Parliament
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
First it was the Kennet and Avon
Then it was the Lee and Stort
and now…. It’s the South East waterways, the southern Grand Union and the Oxford Canal. Sally Ash is on the rampage again with another ill-thought out multi-layered deceit to appease hire boat company interests.
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Tags: enforcement, grand union, Moorings Consultation, penalty charges, Sally Ash, se waterways consultation, visitor moorings, VM
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