Posts Tagged ‘mooring policy’
Friday, August 30th, 2013
The consultation on the local mooring strategy for the Kennet and Avon west of Devizes will run from today Friday 30th August 2013 until Friday 29th November 2013. Electronic copies of the consultation response form will be sent to all holders of boat licences who are on the K&A where CRT holds their email address. Where no email contact exists CRT has agreed to send a paper copy to the address that you use for your boat licence. If you don’t receive a copy, paper copies will also be available from the following places:
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Tags: liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, meeting, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Boaters without home moorings on the southern Grand Union Canal are being offered Roving Mooring Permits by CRT. Boaters are being offered a way out of the enforcement process that means paying a substantial extra fee (£800 per year for a 60 foot boat) to do what s.17(3)(c)(ii) of the British Waterways Act 1995 already permits them to do.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, roving mooring permits, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a meeting took place between CRT and BaNES on 2oth March this year in connection with the Council’s assessment of the inclusion of boat dwellers in its Gypsy, Traveller and Housing Strategy. Reportedly some of the BaNES representatives present were not impressed with CRT.
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Tags: BANES Council, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Equality Act, FOI request, liveaboards, mooring policy, Sally Ash, traveller's rights
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
CRT is currently recruiting seven new staff whose main purpose will be to persuade boat dwellers without home moorings to accept “new policies”; making sure that CRT’s “messages are accurately understood by social and print media as well as all those affected by changes ” and “helping to develop understanding of the legal framework within which we exercise our responsibilities as navigation authority”. Seven posts have been advertised; these are three Community Participation Managers and three Towpath Mooring Control Managers for London, the South and the North, plus an Administrator. The total cost is around £500,000.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring policy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
The CRT South East visitor mooring consultation ends this Friday 1st March. Please respond if you can. Below we publish an example response to the consultation, apart from comments on individual locations.
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash, South East, visitor moorings
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
Councillor Fleur de Rhé-Philipe, Chair of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership, resigned this week. Tamsin Phipps, who represents canoeists on the Partnership, is now acting as the temporary Chair. The Partnership is about to release its review of the K&A local mooring strategy proposals.
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring policy, Parliament
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Mooring Strategy Committee, Moorings Consultation, News, The Politick | No Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, meeting, mooring policy, NABO, Sally Ash, Section 17, U-turn, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, January 6th, 2013
On 25 October 2012, the same day that the K and A Local Waterway Partnership held its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT published plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act. The briefing paper was produced for the CRT Council meeting on 27 September 2012. CRT Council, which contains a minority of boater representatives most of whom have connections with the IWA, endorsed the plan. We reproduce the briefing below with our comments marked in bold.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Council, liveaboards, mooring policy, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Just hours before the K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) was due to hold its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT issued a press release detailing its plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | 1 Comment »