Posts Tagged ‘FOI requests’
Sunday, August 11th, 2019
CRT’s is pressing ahead with plans that will affect liveaboard boaters without a home mooring, mostly by making the lives of our community more difficult. Firstly CRT is developing plans that were announced in its 2017-18 Review of Boat Licensing.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, Boat Safety Scheme, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, CRT review of boat licensing, enforcement, FOI requests, liveaboards, mooring policy, recycling, refuse facilities
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
A multi-agency working group on “residential houseboats” was set up by the DEFRA Inland Waterways Policy Land Use section over a year ago in December 2017, “tasked to look at the issue of illegally [sic] moored houseboats”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, DEFRA, FOI requests, Housing and Planning Act 2016, liveaboards, mooring policy, MPs, Public Right of Navigation, Therese Coffey MP, traveller's rights, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
At least one liveaboard family without a home mooring has successfully negotiated a Term Time Cruising Pattern with CRT.
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Tags: children, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, families, FOI requests, Freedom of Information Act, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, NBTA, school, term time cruising pattern
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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
Posted in CRT Policy News, FOI Act requests | 1 Comment »
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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Monday, October 13th, 2014
Following the release of a copy of the contract between CRT and Biffa for rubbish collection, it is clear that boaters can recycle glass, plastic, non-hazardous metal, paper, card and textiles by putting them loose into the CRT boaters’ rubbish bins.
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Tags: Biffa, complaints, FOI requests, liveaboards, Mark Stephens, refuse facilities
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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Sally Ash, the unpopular Head of Boating, finally retires at the end of this month after 38 years working for BW and CRT. She joined BW as a researcher in 1976 following a Masters degree at Reading University. Here we take a look back at some of her activities and the cost of her career both to boaters and to her employers, not only in financial terms but also in goodwill, time and effort.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, continuous cruising, FOI requests, Houseboat Certificates, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, London Boaters, mooring policy, moorings, NABO, River Lea, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, visitor moorings, Waterways Act 1995, Waterways Ombudsman
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
A recent Freedom of Information response shows that a decision was made in March 2012 to focus enforcement on boats moving 5km or less.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI requests, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Following a Freedom of Information request via www.whatdotheyknow.com, a boater has obtained the job descriptions and person specifications for most of the CRT/ BW enforcement team, apart from the job description for Enforcement and Licensing Manager Denise Yelland. This includes information about the numbers of staff in each position in different waterway areas.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement team, FOI requests, liveaboards, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, FOI Act requests | No Comments »