Posts Tagged ‘roving mooring permits’
Monday, March 19th, 2018
CRT announced on 6th March 2018 that it would not increase licence fees for boats without a home mooring. However there will be fee increases for widebeams and significant reductions in the prompt payment discount, which together will result in more liveaboard boaters struggling to pay the licence fee, more boats becoming unlicensed and more people losing their homes.
CRT’s report on the year-long consultation also stated that “a further review will be undertaken to establish how the significant growth in demand from boats without a home mooring in key locations can be addressed, to fairly reflect the benefit experienced by those boaters without a home mooring in London and other highly popular locations”. CRT stated that these ‘highly popular’ locations include Bath.
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Tags: Bath, consultation, continuous cruising, CRT review of boat licensing, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, prompt payment discount, roving mooring permits, widebeams
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Sally Ash, who as CRT/BW Head of Boating did so much to ruin the lives of boat dwellers without home moorings, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
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Tags: APCO, continuous cruising, drifters, Drifters Leisure Limited, Ed Helps, hire boat companies, James Griffin, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, lo, Local Mooring Strategy, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Tim Parker
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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Sally Ash, the unpopular Head of Boating, finally retires at the end of this month after 38 years working for BW and CRT. She joined BW as a researcher in 1976 following a Masters degree at Reading University. Here we take a look back at some of her activities and the cost of her career both to boaters and to her employers, not only in financial terms but also in goodwill, time and effort.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, continuous cruising, FOI requests, Houseboat Certificates, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, London Boaters, mooring policy, moorings, NABO, River Lea, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, visitor moorings, Waterways Act 1995, Waterways Ombudsman
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
In 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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Tags: liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Richard Parry, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Boaters without home moorings on the southern Grand Union Canal are being offered Roving Mooring Permits by CRT. Boaters are being offered a way out of the enforcement process that means paying a substantial extra fee (£800 per year for a 60 foot boat) to do what s.17(3)(c)(ii) of the British Waterways Act 1995 already permits them to do.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, roving mooring permits, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
From Grand Union Boaters discussing CRT plans for the Southern Grand Union including Roving Mooring Permits and the recent mooring restrictions. Meeting tonight if any boaters are in the area.
“We have organised our first collective boaters meeting for the 12th
June, where the above points are to be discussed. None of us are sure
what to expect, but a number of external people have also been invited
to give small talks on issues. It was suggested that I contact the
Kennet & Avon community to offer an invite to any members that may be
in the area at the time (the meeting will take place at Bletchley
(Fenny Stratford end), Milton Keynes. Boats from Tring to Milton
Keynes have been notified as best we could.
The venue details are:
Masonic Centre, rear of 263 Queensway, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK2 2BZ
Doors open from 6pm, meeting start 7pm; 12th June, 2013
Tags: grand union, moorings, roving mooring permits
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