Posts Tagged ‘consultation’
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
The Boaters’ Cafe Club outreach boat will be at Dundas basin next Tuesday 7th November 2017 from 12 noon to 4pm. The main attraction is a spoken word and poetry workshop with Dru Marland. The workshop is aimed at boaters who would like support with wellbeing and mindfulness. The loose theme of the workshop will be “outsiders”.
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Tags: canal ministries, community, consultation, CRT licensing review, Dundas, food parcels, Health, Julian House, Litania, liveaboards, poetry, spoken word, support, Travelling Community Support Service, welfare
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Boaters may have received an email or a letter from CRT with a link for the consultation questionnaire for CRT’s review of boat licensing.
This consultation contains two proposals to increase the cost of a boat licence without a home mooring. There is no legal justification for this. Increasing the licence fee for boaters without a home mooring will drive some of our community off the canal and into homelessness.
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Tags: consultation, continuous cruising, CRT review of boat licensing, Denise Yelland, licence fees, liveaboards, price increases, questionnaire, survey
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
Please respond to Mead Lane consultation below
As liveaboard boaters without home moorings are being unlawfully forced by CRT to travel longer distances to avoid having our homes seized and removed, many of us have also been forced to use cars to get to work and take children to school, when previously we could rely on cycling and public transport. Many are now having to travel to work or school from places that are much further away, including rural Wiltshire and Berkshire, where public transport is poor or non-existent.
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Tags: BANES Council, community, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, liveaboards, Mead Lane, parking, Saltford, Traffic Regulation Orders
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be on Monday August 14th 2017 at 7.30pm at the Brewery Inn, 69 Seend Cleeve, SN12 6PX – a short walk up the hill from locks 18 and 19. All are welcome. This meeting will focus on CRT’s consultation on changes to boat licensing. We also have 6 Boat Fire Safety Packs to give away (we can get more if people need them).
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Tags: boat fire safety, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT licensing review, enforcement, Fire safety, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, Seend
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2017
The K&A boaters action group will meet every two months on the second Monday from this summer, with the next meeting on Monday 14th August 2017 at 7.30pm.
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Tags: community, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT licensing review, enforcement, Julian House, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, NBTA, towpath tidy, Travelling Community Support Service, Waterways Chaplaincy
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Saturday, June 17th, 2017
The Government has been running a consultation on the use of red diesel, which opened in March 2017 and closes on 30th June 2017.
The consultation document gives a list of uses of red diesel which includes ships and private pleasure craft, but makes no mention of boat dwellers. If you think it is important that the Government fully recognises the use made of red diesel by liveaboard boaters, please respond.
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Tags: consultation, Government, liveaboards, red diesel, tax
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Monday, June 5th, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters Action Group will be on Monday 12th June, 7.30pm – 9pm at the Bridge Inn, Horton Rd, Devizes SN10 2JS. The meeting is mainly to discuss the CRT boat licensing review/ consultation.
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Tags: consultation, continuous cruising, CRT licensing review, enforcement, Horton, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
The deadline for the consultation about BaNES Council’s plans to upgrade the towpath along the K&A between Sydney Gardens and Bathampton is 11th September. There is an online questionnaire and detailed information about the Council’s plans here http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/your-council-and-democracy/consultations/kennet-and-avon-canal-towpath-improvement
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Tags: BANES Council, Bath, Bathampton, consultation, Cycling, cyclist pedestrian conflict, liveaboards, safety, Sustrans, towpath
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Monday, August 24th, 2015
Following pressure from local residents, towpath users and some boaters, BaNES Council is holding two public consultation sessions on 28th and 29th August regarding its plans to upgrade the towpath along the Kennet & Avon Canal between Sydney Gardens and Bathampton.
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Tags: BANES Council, Bath, Bathampton, consultation, Cycling, liveaboards, safety, Sustrans, towpath
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Saturday, March 14th, 2015
On 30th January, CRT announced changes to the boat licence terms and conditions which it claims are not “a significant change of policy by the Trust”. However, many of these changes seek to unlawfully remove the rights of boaters contrary to the British Waterways Act 1995. To the extent that the changes are unlawful, they also fall foul of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, and some of the proposed changes breach the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, Data Protection Act, FOI request, NABO, unfair contracts
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