Posts Tagged ‘CRT misinformation’
Sunday, November 16th, 2014
A member of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership told a liveaboard boater to “shut up” during the Partnership’s Annual Public Meeting on 12th November. Alan Aldous, an IWA member who sits on the Partnership because of his experience as a riparian landowner, later refused to apologise.
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Tags: Alan Aldous, Andrew Harry, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, Matthew Symonds, Rob Dean, Tamsin Phipps
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
A boater has carried out an evaluation of the statistics on boat movement in CRT’s first quarterly report on the K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan. Our correspondent reports:
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, NABO, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
This month, many boaters received a letter from CRT alleging that their boat was sighted in less than the “required” number of “neighbourhoods” between Bath and Foxhangers during the three months from June to August 2014. These letters amount to harassment. The K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan was proposed and consulted on as a voluntary agreement, and therefore CRT cannot now state that boaters are “required” to travel through a specific number of “neighbourhoods”. One of the letters is pictured below.
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Tags: complaints, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards, NABO, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
Sally Ash has posted a new article on CRT’s web site that seeks to discourage people from exercising the right to live on a boat without a home mooring that all CRT licence holders enjoy. “Spreading the word about the demands of living afloat” misinforms people, saying that the law does not allow them to “simply to move around within a small area” and blames continuous cruisers for spoiling everybody’s enjoyment of the waterways.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, Drifters Leisure Limited, hire boat companies, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, November 17th, 2013
A recently published page on the CRT web site makes misleading claims that it is impossible to comply with the law on continuous cruising if you have “fixed obligations, such as education, employment or healthcare, in any one area”. The article wrongly states that you cannot live on a boat without a home mooring if you stay in “one area” but “must use the boat to genuinely cruise in a mainly progressive fashion (A to B to C to D rather than A to B to A to B) from place to place”.
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Tags: association, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Nigel Johnson, CRT’s legal and corporate services director will retire at the end of 2013 according to a CRT press release. This is surprising, because it was announced last year in a review of directors’ pay and roles that he would retire at the end of 2014. Mr Johnson was responsible for CRT spending around £250,000 on BW/ CRT’s failed six-year court battle with Nigel Moore over a section 8 order in Brentford.
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Tags: CRT, CRT misinformation, Jackie Lewis, Nick Brown, Nigel Johnson, Nigel Moore, Sally Ash
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Appparently Sally Ash is less than happy with the lovely film Boater’s Voices, made by Wiltshire Council and, for me at least, evidence that there may be summer again.
She has written to Wiltshire Council complaining that CRT’s voice was not heard, the strident and piercing voice that can be heard in any of Ms Ash’s official outpourings, and is absent from this film.
Her email can be read here.
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Tags: Boaters Voices, CRT misinformation, Sally Ash, Wiltshire County Council
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