The next Kennet and Avon Canal Users Forum (formerly the User Group Meeting) will take place this Thursday 27th November 2014 at the Corn Exchange, Market Place, Devizes SN10 1HS (beside the Bear Hotel) at 7 pm to 8.30 pm.
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Posts Tagged ‘K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan’
K&A Users Forum, 27th November, Devizes
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014CRT releases second report on K&A Local Plan as enforcement staff re-write Local Plan on the hoof
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014Waterway Partnership AGM reveals anti-liveaboard bias
Sunday, November 16th, 2014A member of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership told a liveaboard boater to “shut up” during the Partnership’s Annual Public Meeting on 12th November. Alan Aldous, an IWA member who sits on the Partnership because of his experience as a riparian landowner, later refused to apologise.
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Boat sighting chaos for K&A Local Plan
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014K&A boaters action group next meet 13th October, Seend
Monday, October 6th, 2014Lies, damned lies and CRT boat sightings
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014Looking Glass Eyes and the Laws of Physics
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014Life along the Kennet and Avon canal has of late adopted a gently surreal Kafkaesque tone.
The latest offering from the CART is a letter telling people they haven’t ‘moved through enough neighbourhoods’ in the last three months. it ends with a black edged obituary box stating “YOU ARE AT RISK OF LOSING YOUR BOAT’.
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What to do if CRT tell you your boat has not been sighted in enough “neighbourhoods” in three months
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
This month, many boaters received a letter from CRT alleging that their boat was sighted in less than the “required” number of “neighbourhoods” between Bath and Foxhangers during the three months from June to August 2014. These letters amount to harassment. The K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan was proposed and consulted on as a voluntary agreement, and therefore CRT cannot now state that boaters are “required” to travel through a specific number of “neighbourhoods”. One of the letters is pictured below.
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K&A boaters action group next meeting 8th September, Devizes
Monday, September 1st, 2014Local mooring plan is “sheer harassment” says boater
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014A boater left his berth at Caen Hill marina and spent three days moored on the towpath. Then his engine broke down. He took his boat into the Foxhangers hire boat base for repairs, and it was moored there for a further three days while the repairs are being done. He then received an email from CRT saying that he has been moored in one “neighbourhood” for longer than 14 days and he should move.
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