The election for the CRT Council is under way. Polling opened on 13th November and ends on 11th December at midnight. There are two candidates who are liveaboard boaters without home moorings who we believe will support our interests.
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2015NABO drops opposition to roving mooring permits while CRT CEO says the permits will not be available nationally
Friday, February 21st, 2014In a meeting between CRT and the National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) on 14th January, NABO stated that “Putting the legal arguments to one side, NABO, as a policy decision, are happy for the pilot [roving mooring permit] operation to proceed and will monitor a) its success and b) its effect, if any, on other boaters and the availability of moorings. NABO feels that at least a roving mooring permit is a compassionate attempt to resolve a problem which has been allowed to get out of control. NABO will at this time raise no legal objections during this process but would suggest that the effectiveness of the roving mooring permits is monitored at 6 and 12 month intervals and NABO would like to be party to the findings”.
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And now, from the boaters who brought Roving Mooring Permits to the Grand Union..
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013Can’t Really Trust’em…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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Quiet mooring zone kicks off at Honey Street
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Council Tax update
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012It is clear that moorings of all types are attracting the attention of cash-strapped councils. The position and advice, distilled and published by the RBOA and reported on this site in 2010 is being modified by the VOA (the Valuation Office Agency) as councils force case law judgement. It is clear that paying council tax is going to become a much more common component of mooring costs, whether levied through marinas passing on council imposed bills as is happening in Leicestershire or directly on CRT managed moorings.
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Boater proposes innovative solution at Alton PC meeting
Saturday, April 7th, 2012RBOA on Radio 4
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010An interview on Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ about residential boating in London featuring RBOA chairman Rex Walden and our very own Sally Ash
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