Posts Tagged ‘Devizes’
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
Yesterday (16th August 2017) CRT seized a boat that was a vulnerable person’s home using its powers under Sections 8 and 13 of the British Waterways Acts 1983 and 1971. The boat was craned out at Devizes Wharf at 11am and taken to an unknown location by road. There were 8 bailiffs and enforcement staff present.
UPDATE: It has been reported that the evicted person is now sleeping rough.
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Tags: bailiffs, Boater eviction, Devizes, enforcement, eviction, liveaboards, Matthew Preston, Section 8, Sheila Shaw
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Friday, July 7th, 2017
It’s summer – time to think about making sure your boat is fire safe for next winter! We have 10 Fire Safety packs for boaters who need them, from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service. Call or text 07928 078208 or email info@boatingcommunity.org.uk to arrange to collect one.
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Tags: boat fire safety, continuous cruisers, Devizes, Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, Fire safety, fire safety advice, homelessness, liveaboards, safety
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
Yesterday (16th May 2017) CRT seized a boat from Bishops Cannings and craned it out at the Black Horse in Devizes. The fibreglass cruiser, appeared to be unoccupied when six bailiffs started push-towing it with a dark green dory at around 10am to the Black Horse, where an A. B. Tuckey’s crane and flatbed truck were waiting.
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Tags: bailiffs, Boater eviction, Devizes, enforcement, eviction, liveaboards, Matthew Preston, Section 8, Sheila Shaw
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Friday, May 12th, 2017
Don’t lose your vote in the election! Voter registration forms for people without a fixed address are available from The Wharf Tea Rooms, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes SN10 1EB. The tea rooms are open every day from 10am to 4pm. Liveaboard boaters are also distributing them along the canal to neighbouring boats. You need to register by 22nd May to vote in the 2017 General Election.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Devizes, electoral registration, electoral roll, general election, liveaboards, traveller's rights, voter registration, voting
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Saturday, April 29th, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A boaters action group will be on Monday 8th May 2017 at 7.30pm at the Lamb Inn, 20 St.John’s Street, Devizes SN10 1BT. We will have voter registration forms for people without a fixed address for boaters to either complete on the spot, take away, or distribute to other boaters. If you have the time to deliver some forms to the boats around you, please come to the meeting!
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Tags: continuous cruising, Devizes, electoral registration, electoral roll, enforcement, general election, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, towpath tidy, voter registration, voting
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Monday, January 2nd, 2017
There will be a Boat Fire Safety talk by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service at 7.30pm on Monday 9th January 2017 at the Black Horse, Bath Rd, Devizes SN10 2AU, followed by the K&A boaters action group meeting.
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Tags: boat fire safety, community, continuous cruising, Devizes, Fire safety, Julian House, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, Travelling Community Support Service, Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
On Thursday 15th September at 5pm, CRT Chief Richard Parry will launch a CRT publicity boat at Devizes Wharf SN10 1EB as part of the K&A Waterways Partnership AGM.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, demonstration, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, Protest, Richard Parry, school
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Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Around 30 boat dwellers without home moorings and supporters from the local community took part in a protest opposite Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) office in Devizes on 6th August 2016.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Friday, August 5th, 2016
BBC Radio Wiltshire Breakfast Show will feature tomorrow’s protest against CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy towards boaters without home moorings. Listen out for the live interview at 7.25am.
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio Wiltshire, boating community, boating in the media, children, community, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, school
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. This policy has seen so many liveaboard boaters on the K&A having their licences restricted to 6 months, threatened with losing their homes, being pressured to give up their homes, and boat children’s education and welfare suffering due to the long distances they are being forced to travel to school.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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