Posts Tagged ‘Richard Thomas’
Monday, January 20th, 2020
CRT has reneged on the agreement that it made in May 2019 with boaters and Wadworths Brewery to re-instate the boaters’ rubbish bins at the Bridge Inn, Horton, near Devizes.
In December 2019, fourteen boaters sent a complaint to Acting Regional Director Jon Horsfall that no progress had been made on constructing the proposed new bin site at the pub and also that the water tap at the Bridge Inn had been out of service since November 2019.
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Tags: Bridge Inn, facilities, Horton Bridge, Jon Horsfall, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, Mark Evans, petition, refuse facilities, Richard Thomas, Wadworths
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
CRT’s interim Regional Director for Wales and the South West, Jon Horsfall, confirmed on 18th July 2019 that CRT remains “committed to delivering” the strategic programmes that were devised by former regional director Richard Thomas in conjunction with User Group Forums in 2018 and 2019 and a study day in which the liveaboard boating community was significantly under-represented despite efforts to persuade the former director to include us.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Corrine Rotherham, enforcement, facilities, families, Jon Horsfall, K&A Users Forum, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Matthew Preston, mooring policy, Regional DIrector, Richard Thomas, school, Sheila Shaw, towpath, towpath tidy
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Monday, July 15th, 2019
We now have a clearer picture of why Richard Thomas, Regional Director for Wales and the South West, has left CRT. Sources close to CRT and from the wider community concur in saying that he was difficult to work with, abrasive and unpredictable. It looks as though he left by mutual consent rather than as the result of disciplinary action.
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Tags: CRT rebranding, CRT restructuring, Jon Horsfall, Regional DIrector, Richard Thomas
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Thursday, May 9th, 2019
There will be a Kennet and Avon Canal User Group Forum on Wednesday 5th June 2019 between 6pm and 8pm at St Margaret’s Hall, St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DE. If you wish to raise any issues about enforcement, waterway maintenance, facilities for boaters or other matters, this meeting is an opportunity to do so. It is an open meeting and all waterway users are entitled to attend.
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Tags: Bradford-on-Avon, enforcement, facilities, K&A Users Forum, liveaboards, meeting, Richard Thomas
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Thursday, December 27th, 2018
Following CRT’s announcement on 6th November 2018 of up to 240 redundancies across its middle management roles, we can reveal that all the staff in the CRT Devizes office are facing possible redundancy.
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Tags: Corrine Rotherham, CRT restructuring, Denise Yelland, Devizes, enforcement team, Jenny Whitehall, Lucy Barry, Mark Evans, Mark Stephens, Matthew Aymes, Matthew Preston, re-branding, redundancy, Richard Thomas, Shoosmiths, Unite the union
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
Please join us to hand in the petition calling for CRT and Wadworths to re-instate the boaters’ rubbish bins at the Bridge Inn.
Join us outside St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon BA15 1DE, on Wednesday 21st November 2018 at 5.30pm (the CRT Users meeting is from 6pm to 8pm).
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Tags: Bradford-on-Avon, Bridge Inn, facilities, Horton Bridge, K&A Users Forum, liveaboards, petition, refuse facilities, Richard Thomas, Wadworths
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
Mark Evans, who has been the manager of the Kennet and Avon Canal since April 2015, will lose his job as a result of CRT restructuring.
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Tags: CRT restructuring, Dale Marshall, Devizes, ex-services, Jon Horsfall, liveaboards, Mark Evans, Mike Grimes, Richard Thomas
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