Posts Tagged ‘police’
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Following a legal challenge by a boater to the decision by BaNES Council to close the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between November and March, boaters can now moor at Mead Lane for 14 days all year round. The river bank there is owned by BaNES.
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Tags: BANES Council, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, Judicial Review, liveaboards, Mead Lane, police, River Avon, Saltford
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Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Last week BaNES Council reversed the decision that it made in January and has re-opened the 14-day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford on the River Avon, until a structural survey of the river bank is carried out and further consultation of interested parties has taken place. The U-turn followed a solicitor’s letter sent to the Council on behalf of boaters. This comes shortly after the BaNES Environmental Health department began taking steps in mid-May 2020 to evict liveaboards who had been moored at Mead Lane due to the suspension of boat movements for the Coronavirus lockdown.
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Tags: BANES Council, consultation, continuous cruising, enforcement, Harassment, liveaboards, Mead Lane, mooring policy, moorings, police, River Avon, solicitor's letter
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The Home Office announced recently that the charge for calling the police non-emergency number 101 would be scrapped from 1st April 2020. You should now be able to call 101 free of charge.
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Tags: 101, Coronavirus, crime, police, social distancing
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
Wiltshire Police has approached the liveaboard boating community seeking people to participate in its new Independent Advisory Group (IAG) in East Wiltshire. The police are particularly looking for members of minority groups, or representatives of organisations that work with minorities or vulnerable people.
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Tags: community safety, crime, discrimination, hate crime, liveaboards, minorities, police, Wiltshire police
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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
In the week to 22nd April 2016 at least five boats on the K&A, at Pewsey and Hilperton, have been broken into. The modus operandi of the thief is very similar to that of Allan Campbell who was jailed in 2013 for a series of boat burglaries on the K&A and elsewhere.
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Tags: Allan Campbell, Boat burglaries, liveaboards, police
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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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