Posts Tagged ‘enforcement’
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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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
Following recent media coverage of CRT’s punitive policy towards boat dwellers without home moorings, especially the features about families on the K&A who are being threatened with the loss of their home because their children go to school, a boater has contacted us with these comments. Steve Haigh writes:
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Off the Cut
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
A primary school head condemned CRT’s enforcement policy against boats without home moorings as “inhumane” because of its detrimental effect on boat children, in a meeting between CRT chief Richard Parry and local MP Michelle Donelan.
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters from the K&A joined demonstrations outside CRT’s headquarters in Milton Keynes on 10th May where in total about 90 boat dwellers without home moorings protested against the charity’s punitive and unlawful enforcement action against boats without a home mooring. Some 15 boaters also protested at CRT’s licensing office in Leeds.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Milton Keynes, NBTA, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Following the handing in of the Boats are Homes petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Boats are Homes march, boaters are invited to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds and its Milton Keynes HQ at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 10th May 2016.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Milton Keynes, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
There will be a meeting on Tuesday 12th April, 7pm to 9pm, at the Cross Guns, Avoncliff BA15 2HB for all boaters without home moorings who have been put onto 3 or 6 month ‘restricted’ licences by CRT and for those who have been threatened with restriction or non-renewal of their licence.
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Tags: continuous cruising, education, enforcement, family life, liveaboards, restricted licences, school
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Friday, March 25th, 2016
On Tuesday 29th March at 7pm to 9pm at the Cross Guns, Avoncliff BA15 2HB, there will be a second meeting for any boaters who have been put onto ‘restricted’ 3 or 6 month licences by CRT, or whose licence renewal without a home mooring has been refused, or who are otherwise in the enforcement process.
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Tags: continuous cruising, education, enforcement, family life, liveaboards, restricted licences, school
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