Help stop british waterways from denying boater’s legal mooring rights and destroying boating communities
A petition has been launched at the consultation meetings
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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.
Petition launched
Friday, December 11th, 2009A positive response – and more babies
Friday, December 11th, 2009A lot has been said, both on this site and at the meetings about the negative impacts of the proposals, understandably, people have been pushed onto the defensive by these threats to our homes and lifestyle. However there is a significant amount of feeling that we can also effect change in a positive way.
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Consultation meetings – a brief report
Friday, December 11th, 2009It is not often that boaties move me to tears, barring when they hit my foot with a mooring hammer. But the response to the meetings has moved me muchly. The back bar at the Canal Tavern was packed and the Love Lounge at the Bell had a surprising number of people given how cold and damp the weather was that night.
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Consultation Meetings
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009If you can’t make the meetings, we hope that you feel strongly enough to respond when you can. The clocks on the home page show how long you’ve got, not forgetting the party season about to commence.
We have some documents to aid which will be available at the meeting, here they are for general download.
National moorings reponse form with room to fill in your response
Local moorings response form
Suggestions for possible responses
BW consultation – they want to know what we think
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009The unanswered question
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Your response, your future
Monday, November 30th, 2009Bath
Tuesday 8th December 8pm Love Lounge @ the Bell
Bradford-on-Avon
Thursday 10th December 8pm Canal Tavern
Two meetings, one in Bradford, one in Bath to discuss our collective and individual response to the consultations. As with true sneakiness and contrary to government guidelines on public consultation (yes, there will be a complaint) this consultation straddles Christmas and New Year we feel it is important to get our voice heard as soon as. For the last moorings consultation 8% of the response came from the Western Kennet and Avon. We know that you want to make your voice heard, come along and gather the information and resources to make your response as effective as possible.
There are two consultations running:
1. Moorings Policy for BW’s network in England and Wales, deadline 31 January.
2. Proposals for developing local mooring strategies, deadline 11 January (You may have received a letter about this one, delivered to your boat).
Please be there – BW want to introduce mooring restrictions that could severely restrict our way of life, so responding to these proposals is important for the future of our community! You can read the consultation documents online at:
http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/listening-to-you/consultations-and-reviews/current-consultations
If you can’t come to the meeting, please respond to both consultations. You will find some of our thoughts about the proposals on this website. If you don’t respond your future will be decided without your input.
We cannot emphasis enough how important it is to respond to this consultation, this meeting is a good place to do that.
If you need help getting to either venue, let us know and we’ll co-ordinate lifts.
Consultation responses – a few suggestions
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Consultation, bottom upwards
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Sally blames dog shit on the boaters
Saturday, November 21st, 2009And all the rest of it, listen here;
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