Posts Tagged ‘Richard Parry’
Sunday, November 5th, 2023
CRT is planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ on boats licensed without a home mooring, which will start at 5% of the licence fee in April 2024 and increase to 25% by 2028. This could price us off the waterways and eliminate our nomadic way of life. There will be a national protest march on CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry’s office at Cambrian Wharf in central Birmingham to oppose the surcharge on our community. The march is organised by the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA).
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Birmingham, boat licence fees, coach from K&A, continuous cruising, demonstration, licence surcharge, liveaboards, meeting, Protest, Richard Parry
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan walked the 87-mile length of the K&A canal last weekend to help raise funds for a new building for Holt Pre-School. She completed the walk yesterday having raised around £6,400. The Chippenham constituency includes the K&A Canal from Dundas to Bowerhill. Michelle Donelan is the Minister of State for Higher and Further Education.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, education, enforcement, families, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school, term time cruising pattern
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
As a result of the Government lock down announced yesterday 23rd March 2020, Canal & River Trust has issued the following statement:
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Tags: 14 day rule, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Coronavirus, Covid-19, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Richard Parry, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, February 18th, 2018
The K&A could be split into two waterway regions with the western end to Froxfield being run from Gloucester and the eastern end managed from London, after CRT announced on 7th December 2017 that it would restructure its management. The K&A Waterway Partnership met CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry earlier this month to try to persuade CRT that running the K&A from two different offices would be disastrous for the canal and the people who live and work on it. Mr Parry heard their case but made no promises.
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Tags: All Party Parliamentary Waterways Group, CRT restructuring, Ian Rogers, Local Waterway Partnership, Mike Grimes, Richard Parry
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
On 14th February 2017 the Waterways Ombudsman stated in a case report (Case no 933) that CRT intended in the coming weeks to publish “illustrative cruising patterns” for liveaboard boaters with school age children. In the Navigation Advisory Group meeting of 13th February 2017, former Head of Boating Mike Grimes stated: “We’re looking at putting together and publish soon some example compliant movement patterns that boaters with children could look at to help inform their movement patterns”.
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Tags: Bathampton School, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, FOI requests, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Mike Grimes, Richard Parry, school, Waterways Ombudsman
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Monday, September 26th, 2016
On 14th September CRT seized a boat without a home mooring that was a vulnerable woman’s home while she was asleep inside it. The woman, who suffers from epilepsy, was later rushed to hospital in an ambulance as the stress of the eviction had caused her condition to become critical.
Our roving reporter, R Mutt has sent us this report of a disturbing incident that shows how easy it is for people to fall through the cracks in society if we don’t, as a community, pay careful attention to the needs of everyone.
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Tags: bailiffs, Bath, Boater eviction, Corrine Rotherham, disability, enforcement, eviction, Matthew Symonds, Richard Parry, safeguarding, Sean Williams, Section 8, Shergroup, The Sheriffs Office, Welfare issues
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
On Thursday 15th September at 5pm, CRT Chief Richard Parry will launch a CRT publicity boat at Devizes Wharf SN10 1EB as part of the K&A Waterways Partnership AGM.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, demonstration, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, Protest, Richard Parry, school
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Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Around 30 boat dwellers without home moorings and supporters from the local community took part in a protest opposite Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) office in Devizes on 6th August 2016.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
We are now able to publish the minutes of the meeting between liveaboard boaters, Michelle Donelan MP and CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. The meeting was minuted by Wiltshire Council’s Peter Dunford, Community Engagement Manager for Bradford on Avon. Also included is a record of the discussions. You can download them here:
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. This policy has seen so many liveaboard boaters on the K&A having their licences restricted to 6 months, threatened with losing their homes, being pressured to give up their homes, and boat children’s education and welfare suffering due to the long distances they are being forced to travel to school.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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