Posts Tagged ‘FOI request’
Friday, November 25th, 2016
The K&A is actually being dredged. Well, not completely dredged, but spot dredged in some of the worst places.
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Tags: canal maintenance, continuous cruising, dredging, FOI request, Freedom of Information Act, liveaboards, Long Pound, Mark Evans, mooring
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Monday, March 28th, 2016
Yet another mooring place used by liveaboard boaters is under threat. This time it is the stretch of the River Avon at Mead Lane, Saltford.
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Tags: BANES Council, complaints, continuous cruising, FOI request, FOI requests, liveaboards, mooring policy, River Avon, Saltford, Saltford Parish Council
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Friday, January 1st, 2016
CRT has adopted a standard procedure for assessing and agreeing adjustments to its enforcement procedure for boaters with disabilities.
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Tags: age discrimination, continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, equality, Equality Act, FOI request, liveaboards, NABO, NBTA, pregnancy
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Saturday, August 29th, 2015
Following a Freedom of Information request, CRT has published a list and an interactive map of kilometre lengths for all of the waterways that it owns or manages.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, kilometre lengths, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, August 8th, 2015
Following a Freedom of Information request by Allan Richards, CRT has published all the enforcement letters referred to in the continuous cruising enforcement flow chart that Mr Richards obtained in June shortly before its publication by CRT. We provide some explanation of the letters here.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, enforcement team, FOI request, liveaboards, restricted licences, Section 17, short term licences, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, March 14th, 2015
On 30th January, CRT announced changes to the boat licence terms and conditions which it claims are not “a significant change of policy by the Trust”. However, many of these changes seek to unlawfully remove the rights of boaters contrary to the British Waterways Act 1995. To the extent that the changes are unlawful, they also fall foul of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, and some of the proposed changes breach the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, Data Protection Act, FOI request, NABO, unfair contracts
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
In a response to a Freedom of Information request CRT has released information about the changes to the enforcement process against boats without a home mooring which it has announced will be applied to all continuous cruisers from 1st May 2015.
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Tags: continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, equality, FOI request, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, September 22nd, 2014
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has confirmed the suspicions of many that CRT had not intended to publish the ‘places’ maps in August. Boaters who wanted to find out more were nonplussed by the absence of announcements on the CRT web site.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, FOI request, liveaboards, meeting, mooring policy, NBTA, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
A Freedom of Information request shows that CRT had received legal advice that meant it had to change the K&A local mooring plan substantially before implementation, contrary to the statement of CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry on 21st May.
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Tags: continuous cruising, FOI request, Jackie Lewis, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Matthew Symonds, Richard Parry, Sally Ash
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