Posts Tagged ‘NBTA’
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
A group of fourteen boaters from the K&A joined the national Boats Are Homes march on Saturday 8th April 2017. The demonstration was organised in protest against CRT’s unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. Boat dwellers from all over the waterways took part. The march was organised by the National Bargee Travellers Association.
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Tags: children, continuous cruising, DEFRA, demonstration, education, enforcement, families, liveaboards, NBTA, petition
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is to hold a Volunteer Caseworker Training Session for liveaboard boaters and their supporters at 11am to 5pm on Sunday 11th September 2016 followed by the first meeting of NBTA Kennet and Avon group at 5.15pm, in Bradford on Avon Youth and Community Centre, Kennet Gardens, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1LE.
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Tags: caseworker, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, liveaboards, meeting, NBTA, NBTA K&A, training, welfare benefits
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters from the K&A joined demonstrations outside CRT’s headquarters in Milton Keynes on 10th May where in total about 90 boat dwellers without home moorings protested against the charity’s punitive and unlawful enforcement action against boats without a home mooring. Some 15 boaters also protested at CRT’s licensing office in Leeds.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Milton Keynes, NBTA, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
On Saturday 16th April there will be a demonstration to demand that CRT:
*stops evicting or threatening to evict boat dwellers without permanent moorings based on their travel pattern, because of an arbitrary and unlawful minimum distance ‘rule’ that has been imposed since last May
*stops imposing 24 hour mooring time limits (the law entitles us to stay 14 days in any one place)
*stops any plans for the sale of our waterways,
and instead takes positive action to:
*maintain the banks and towpaths of the waterways
*install more mooring rings where these are needed and
*install more facilities.
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Tags: continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, liveaboards, NBTA, petition
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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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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
CRT’s new policy on boaters without home moorings effective from 1st May 2015 has already meant that many boaters have had renewal of their licence for 12 months refused and a six-month or three -month licence offered instead.
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Tags: 3 month licence, 6 month licence, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, licence renewal, liveaboards, NBTA, refusal to renew licence, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, April 5th, 2015
The implementation of CRT’s draconian new Licence Terms and Conditions has been delayed by at least a month. In a meeting with some of the boating user groups, CRT stated that the new Terms and Conditions would be implemented on 1st May.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Act, NABO, NBTA, Sian Ferry, towpath mooring control project, towpath mooring management project, unfair contracts, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, February 14th, 2015
Yesterday CRT announced that from 1st May 2015 that it is extending its “new continuous cruiser” enforcement process to all boats licensed without a home mooring. It declared that it would refuse to renew the licences of the boats that have moved the least over their licence year unless they obtain a home mooring, and that boats that travel further but whose movement falls short of the movement required by Section 17 3 c ii of the British Waterways Act 1995 would only have their licences renewed for a short period and if their movement was still not considered adequate, they too would be forced to take a mooring or CRT would refuse to renew their licence. Yet CRT has not stated what it means by boats that move the least, and neither has it disclosed what distance it considers acceptable.
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Tags: ACC, AWCC, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT v Mayers, enforcement, IWA, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, moorings, NABO, NBTA, Nigel Moore, RBOA, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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