Posts Tagged ‘hire boat companies’
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
We have been alerted to the fact that CRT may be considering restricted opening hours all year round on a permanent basis for the Caen Hill flight in Devizes, should no objections be raised. The winter opening hours for Caen Hill (Locks 29-44) are 10am – 1pm every day, with last entry into the flight by 1pm.
Please object to this!
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Tags: Caen Hill, complaints, continuous cruising, enforcement, hire boat companies, liveaboards, Mark Evans
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
The Department for Transport (DfT) is running a consultation on strengthening enforcement against the dangerous use of recreational and personal watercraft. The consultation mainly concerns the dangerous use of craft such as jetskis. However the DfT is also asking in Question 12 for respondents to submit documentary evidence that alcohol or drug use among recreational mariners is leading to safety concerns or an increased number of accidents or incidents.
The closing date is 1st November. Send your evidence (photos, videos or written descriptions) and any response to the consultation to maritimesafety@dft.gov.uk with the subject heading: Consultation on enforcement re dangerous use of recreational and personal watercraft.
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Tags: consultation, Department for Transport, evidence, hire boat companies, hire boats, safety, stag parties
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Monday, April 18th, 2016
Last year over 150 people, mostly liveaboard boaters, signed a letter to Avon and Somerset and Wiltshire police forces about the concerns of liveaboard boaters, leisure boaters and residents along the western end of the K&A about the activities and behaviour of some hire boat groups, especially stag and hen parties.
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Tags: anti-social behaviour, CRT, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, meeting, police, stag parties
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
The BaNES Gypsy, Traveller, Boater and Roma Community Support Service report that over the summer they met with Chief Inspector Thatcher of Avon and Somerset Police on the issue of anti-social hire boaters. Avon and Somerset Police and Wiltshire Police have produced a joint leaflet which has been delivered by them to the hire boat companies along the western K&A, along with a message that the police will take action against drunk and anti-social behaviour from hirers and will be keeping a log of the number of reported incidents, which could result in action being taken against companies that persistently hire to this type of customer.
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Tags: hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, police, Public Order Act, stag parties
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Following discussions with liveaboard boaters, Tim Harris, the Antisocial Behaviour Officer for BaNES has asked for video evidence of stag party hire boat crews causing damage to boats or behaving offensively or abusively.
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Tags: antisocial behaviour, BaNES, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards, police, stag parties
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Sally Ash, who as CRT/BW Head of Boating did so much to ruin the lives of boat dwellers without home moorings, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
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Tags: APCO, continuous cruising, drifters, Drifters Leisure Limited, Ed Helps, hire boat companies, James Griffin, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, lo, Local Mooring Strategy, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Tim Parker
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Liveaboard boaters, especially those between Devizes and Bath, are breathing a sigh of relief now this year’s hire boat season is over. The K&A boaters action group is drawing up a dossier of the incidents involving hire boats and complaints that boaters and canalside residents have made about the behaviour or safety of hire boat crew this year. The group will then seek a meeting with the hire companies.
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Tags: canalside residents, complaints, hire boat companies, hire boats, liveaboards
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