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.

Success

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The national consultation has had about 200 responses and the local one only about 100, Damian Kemp of British Waterways revealed today.

That’s not  many people nationwide who really give a toss?

Gosh.

But I posted 36 responses from you lot. And I know of some who sent theirs in independently by post or email after the meetings.

So well over a third of the consultation on Local Moorings Strategy responses were from local boaters. And at least 20% of the response to the National Consultation on Mooring Strategy.

Well done you.

Sally Ash confesses consultation is a sham

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Sally confesses all in the Wiltshire Times on the 29th January…

Read more…

It’s petition time

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Remember the petition? The one that goes “Help Stop British Waterways from denying boater’s legal mooring and destroying boating communities”.

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Want to help British Waterways?

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Want to help British Waterways in their assessment of the consultation responses?

Here’s your chance

<irony and deep sarcasm>

Nice to see they are using professional and independent teams for collating responses. Does it give you a warm glow to know our future is in such safe hands?

</irony and deep sarcasm>

Consultation Response

Monday, February 1st, 2010

An excellent and supportive response from Duncan Hames, Liberal Democrat candidate for Chippenham, the ward that includes Bradford-on-Avon.

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The full presentation to the Area Board

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Presentation to Wiltshire Council Bradford on Avon Area Board, 21 January 2010, by Kennet and Avon boaters.

The boating community is going to present the moral, legal and business arguments concerning the British Waterways consultation on local mooring strategies.

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The presentation to the Area Board

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Here’s the precis of Panda’s presentation to the Area Board for Bradford-on-Avon on Thursday 21st January 2010. It will form the basis for a press release to present the positive role of the boat dwellers amongst the local community, show how the threat to the boater’s lifestyle is a cause for concern throughout the community and ask the council to exercise their duty of care towards boaters as travellers.

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A tale of two councils

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

One one hand we have B&NES, an authority whose domain the canal runs through from Hanham up to the exact middle of Dundas aqueduct.

On the other the successful meeting with representatives of Wiltshire County Council in Holt last week.

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Local Consultation Responses

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Some responses to the local moorings strategy consultation, if you are struggling with words for your own response please feel free to lift or copy any amount of the text if it agrees with your own views.

Response 1
A very comprehensive thorough and well reasoned response encompassing most of the points discussed on this site and at the meetings.

Response 2
One person’s response to help anyone who’s still trying to understand the extremely complicated proposals and wondering what to say.

Response 3 National Consultation
And a response to the national consultation.

Local Consultation deadline extended

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

If you failed to get your local consultation response in by this Monday 11th, you will be glad to hear that following a number of complaints BW have extended the deadline to the 31st January, the same deadline as the national consultation.

So no more excuses, get that response emailed or posted as soon as you can.