Posts Tagged ‘CRT Navigation Advisory Group’
Friday, September 8th, 2017
On 14th February 2017 the Waterways Ombudsman stated in a case report (Case no 933) that CRT intended in the coming weeks to publish “illustrative cruising patterns” for liveaboard boaters with school age children. In the Navigation Advisory Group meeting of 13th February 2017, former Head of Boating Mike Grimes stated: “We’re looking at putting together and publish soon some example compliant movement patterns that boaters with children could look at to help inform their movement patterns”.
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Tags: Bathampton School, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, FOI requests, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Mike Grimes, Richard Parry, school, Waterways Ombudsman
Posted in CRT Policy News, FOI Act requests | 1 Comment »
Sunday, August 9th, 2015
Sam Worrall, a liveaboard boater without a home mooring on the K&A, has been appointed to CRT’s Navigation Advisory Group (NAG) Licensing and Moorings Sub-Group. Sam is one of Julian House’s two Gypsy, Traveller Boater and Roma Outreach and Engagement Officers.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, liveaboards, Mark Walton, Sam Worrall
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
CRT announced last week that it had allocated £225,000 towards upgrading sanitary stations on the K&A and in the North West, the Midlands and London as part of a new programme of improvements throughout the system that also includes dredging and offside vegetation cutting.
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Tags: CRT Navigation Advisory Group, facilities, Mark Stephens
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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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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Consideration by CRT’s Navigation Advisory Group of the Local Mooring Strategy that was finalised by the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership has been unnacountably delayed. The Mooring Strategy was to be considered by the Navigation Advisory Group (NAG) on 24th April. However, it appears that CRT cancelled this meeting with no explanation and it is not known when the Navigation Advisory group will meet next.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, Grand Union canal, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Mooring Strategy Committee | 6 Comments »