Posts Tagged ‘14 day rule’
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Three liveaboard boaters attended the CRT Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 27 September to register their objection to the joint CRT and IWA attack on the rights of boaters without home moorings.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, meeting, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
CRT’s plans for the consultation on the K and A Local Mooring Strategy have changed again. A sub-group of the Local Waterway Partnership (formerly the Partnership Board) will review the mooring strategy and will decide what consultation is required. CRT claims this sub-group will be “independent”. At the final meeting of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group in October 2011 it was agreed that the Local Waterway Partnership would review the mooring strategy. BW then unilaterally disbanded the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group before its work was complete. However, at that point BW still intended to carry out a full public consultation.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, hire boat companies, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
The possibility of navigation restrictions and stoppages is one of the reasons why Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act allows boaters without home moorings to stay longer than 14 days in one place if it is reasonable in the circumstances. So if you are trapped by maintenance stoppages or drought measures, don’t worry. Here is some information from BW about water resources, water supply and plans in the event of further drought, from the presentation at the Kennet and Avon Canal User Group meeting on May 3rd.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, drought, Section 17, stoppages, water resources, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
BW’s internal Licensing and Enforcement management reports between June 2011 and March 2012 show that BW has set a target for “all boats not moving at least 30km during their contract period to be within enforcement process “. The reports were obtained by a Freedom of Information request.
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Tags: 14 day rule, British Waterways, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, Section 17
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
British Waterways recently sent round a circular email advertising their winter moorings, with the advice that boaters, if unable to move due to the canal being frozen, would have to ask their local patrol officer for permission to remain.
This prompted a FoI request regarding the numbers of craft with icebreaking capabilities in BW’s possession, and the number of hours for which they were deployed in this capacity during the winter of 2010-2011
BW have now responded:
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Tags: 14 day rule, BW, FOI, Ice, Letters to BW and others, Overstaying
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
BW recently released a draft summary of the Local Mooring Strategy proposals to the Steering Group and the representatives of unaffiliated boaters on the Group responded to these draft proposals this week. BW has asked for responses from Steering Group members prior to putting the finalised proposals out to consultation. Watch out for boaters’ meetings soon to make sure you have your say about it. BW’s summary of the proposals and the unaffiliated boaters’ response is below.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
A legal challenge to BW’s revised Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers is expected after BW rejected a “letter before claim” from boater Nick Brown. It is likely that Mr Brown will issue Judicial Review proceedings on the grounds that the revised guidance is ultra vires, in other words BW does not have the legal power to enforce it, and that it does not reflect the meaning intended by Parliament of Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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