Posts Tagged ‘BANES Council’
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
A few more liveaboard boaters are needed to attend the River Avon Users Forum meetings to represent the boating community. The next meeting is on Tuesday 11th July at 7.30pm in Saltford Rowing Club, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JS (next to Saltford Marina).
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Mead Lane, River Avon, River Users Forum, Saltford
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
BaNES Council Water Space Study has published the full results of its 2016 survey into the needs of liveaboard boaters in its area. You can read the full report here
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Tags: BANES Council, facilities, River Avon, survey
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
Boater Sam Worrall, who works for Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service, spoke at the BaNES council meeting on 15th September 2016 to explain the adverse effects of CRT’s unlawful enforcement against liveaboard boaters and the lack of facilities along the canal and River Avon. She asked the Council to recognise, support and consider liveaboard boaters in its policy and planning.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Julian House, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, River Avon, Sam Worrall, Travelling Community Support Service
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Thursday, August 18th, 2016
The BaNES Water Space Partnership (BaNES Council, CRT, Environment Agency and Wessex Water) has commissioned a study looking at the use of the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal within the BaNES area (Hanham to Dundas), and identifying ways in which facilities and services for waterway users can be improved.
See www.waterspacebath.org.uk
As part of this the company working on the project, Atkins, are hosting two focus groups in which representatives of different types of user will be asked to explore the issues they face in making use of the waterways.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, focus group, liveaboards, mooring policy, mooring survey, Moorings Consultation, River Avon, survey
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
BaNES Council has agreed to meet boat dwellers without home moorings to discuss the need for boaters to be directly represented on the Committees tasked with making decisions about the joint BaNES – CRT mooring strategy covering the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal to Limpley Stoke.
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Tags: BANES Council, complaints, continuous cruising, liveaboards, mooring policy, mooring survey, Moorings Consultation, River Avon, survey
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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
Documents obtained by a Freedom of Information request to BaNES Council, and the response to a recent complaint about proposals to restrict mooring at Mead Lane, Saltford, show that BaNES and CRT are planning a mooring strategy for the River Avon and the K&A Canal between Hanham and Limpley Stoke.
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Tags: BANES Council, Bath, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, mooring strategy, Pulteney Weir, River Avon
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Monday, March 28th, 2016
Yet another mooring place used by liveaboard boaters is under threat. This time it is the stretch of the River Avon at Mead Lane, Saltford.
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Tags: BANES Council, complaints, continuous cruising, FOI request, FOI requests, liveaboards, mooring policy, River Avon, Saltford, Saltford Parish Council
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