Posts Tagged ‘Canal and River Trust’
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
A 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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Tags: BANES Council, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Equality Act, FOI request, liveaboards, mooring policy, Sally Ash, traveller's rights
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 29th, 2013
CRT chuggers (“charity muggers”) are spending Easter week at Bradford lock. If you see them, you may wish to remind them how much money CRT is spending on unlawful enforcement against boat dwellers without home moorings who do comply with the law.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, charity, continuous cruising, liveaboards
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
CRT is currently recruiting seven new staff whose main purpose will be to persuade boat dwellers without home moorings to accept “new policies”; making sure that CRT’s “messages are accurately understood by social and print media as well as all those affected by changes ” and “helping to develop understanding of the legal framework within which we exercise our responsibilities as navigation authority”. Seven posts have been advertised; these are three Community Participation Managers and three Towpath Mooring Control Managers for London, the South and the North, plus an Administrator. The total cost is around £500,000.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring policy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Sally Ash
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
Following a complaint by a boater who spent half an hour on the phone while CRT staff tried to find details of the Annual Public Meeting that was due to take place in two weeks’ time, CRT has apologised for the time it took to provide the information.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, meeting
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Just hours before the K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) was due to hold its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT issued a press release detailing its plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) is to hold the first meeting of its Moorings Sub-Group on 26th October, it was announced yesterday.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Mark Stephens, meeting, Sally Ash
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