The Task and Finish group set up by BaNES Council to assess how liveaboard boaters should be included in the Council’s strategies on Travellers and Housing has almost completed its report.
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Posts Tagged ‘BANES Council’
BaNES recommendations on boat dwellers to be published in July
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Sally Ash tells BaNES liveaboard boaters are forcing out leisure users
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a meeting took place between CRT and BaNES on 2oth March this year in connection with the Council’s assessment of the inclusion of boat dwellers in its Gypsy, Traveller and Housing Strategy. Reportedly some of the BaNES representatives present were not impressed with CRT.
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Invitation to BaNES focus group on liveaboard boaters’ needs, 11th April
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013All liveaboard boaters (both with and without moorings) are invited to a focus group to be held by BaNES Council on 11th April. This is part of BaNES Council’s investigation of the needs and difficulties in getting access to services experienced by liveaboard boaters prior to inclusion in the Council’s strategy for travellers and nomadic people.
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Can you help to deliver voter registration forms this week?
Sunday, March 17th, 2013The K&A boaters action group has a big pile of voter registration forms that we would like to deliver to as many boats as we can this week, starting tomorrow (Monday 18th March). We need some help doing this!! If you can cycle along a stretch of towpath delivering these forms, please ring/text 07928 078208 or email info@boatingcommunity.org.uk
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Boaters, use your vote in 2013 (and afterwards)
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Something that us boaters may or may not be aware of is that we still have the right to vote even though we don’t have a fixed address. There will be local elections for Wiltshire Council (and other Councils) on May 2nd this year, and our votes could make the difference between continuing Wiltshire’s support for liveaboard boaters or not. If you fill in and send back the electoral registration form before April 17th 2013, you will be added to the electoral roll in time to vote. Here is the form boater_electoral_registration
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BaNES Council want to hear from liveaboard boaters
Monday, March 4th, 2013Bath and NE Somerset Council want to hear from liveaboard boaters on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the River Avon. If you live on your boat without a home mooring, and spend some of your time between Dundas and Hanham, or if you live on a mooring in this area, the Council wants you to tell them about your needs and requirements. Please email scrutiny@bathnes.gov.uk by March 28th 2013.
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BaNES seeks to prevent CRT taking ‘draconian’ action against liveaboard boaters
Saturday, October 27th, 2012When making arrangements for a meeting between BaNES Council and Sally Ash and Damian Kemp of BW in December 2011, one of the Council’s housing officers said in an email that “We .. have on-going concerns regarding their appreciation of the potential impact of the proposed moorings strategy (ie homelessness, access to education/services etc).”
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Local Mooring Strategy proposals to include roving mooring permit
Sunday, May 20th, 2012BaNES traveller policy may include boat dwellers
Thursday, March 1st, 2012BW never intended K and A mooring strategy meetings to continue
Monday, February 27th, 2012On 28 November 2011, BW’s Damian Kemp informed members of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group by email that there would be no more meetings and that BW would complete the Mooring Strategy in-house. Yet this message has turned out to be entirely dishonest – BW had already planned in September 2011 that the October 2011 meeting was to be the last.
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