Posts Tagged ‘enforcement’
Friday, December 29th, 2017
CRT earlier this year stayed Section 8 cases against two boat dwellers without permanent moorings, Matthew Jones and Christopher McKendrick, following the Court of Appeal judgement in Matthew Jones’s favour on 7th March 2017, we can now reveal. The Consent Order sealed by Bristol County Court on 23rd May 2017 shows that CRT reached a settlement with Matthew Jones. Both Mr Jones and Mr McKendrick have now re-licensed their boats without a permanent mooring. Their homes are not now under threat of being seized by the charity. Both had been deemed by CRT not to have moved “far enough”.
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Tags: Article 8, bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, Equality Act, human rights, liveaboards, Matthew Jones, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be on Monday 11th December 2017 at 7.30pm in the Canal Tavern, 49 Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon BA15 1LE. We will have lots of paper copies of the CRT Boat Licence Review questionnaire so that anyone who hasn’t responded yet can fill one in. The consultation closes on 18th December so it’s your last chance to get your views in. CRT is proposing to increase the cost of a boat licence without a home mooring, so it’s really important that the views of boaters without a home mooring are represented in this consultation.
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Tags: Bradford-on-Avon, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT licensing review, enforcement, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, towpath tidy
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be on Monday 9th October 2017 at 7.30pm in the Function Room at the Bell By The Green, Estcourt Street, Devizes SN10 1LQ (next to Morrisons and opposite the Green). All are welcome.
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Tags: boat fire safety, continuous cruising, Devizes, enforcement, Fire safety, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, towpath, towpath tidy
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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