Posts Tagged ‘Sally Ash’
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Nigel Johnson, CRT’s legal and corporate services director will retire at the end of 2013 according to a CRT press release. This is surprising, because it was announced last year in a review of directors’ pay and roles that he would retire at the end of 2014. Mr Johnson was responsible for CRT spending around £250,000 on BW/ CRT’s failed six-year court battle with Nigel Moore over a section 8 order in Brentford.
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Tags: CRT, CRT misinformation, Jackie Lewis, Nick Brown, Nigel Johnson, Nigel Moore, Sally Ash
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
The Court of Appeal yesterday (23 July) granted permission to Nick Brown for a Judicial Review of the Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) 2011 Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Nick Brown, Sally Ash, Section 17, Section 8, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in News, The Law | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 20th, 2013
An enforcement officer on the Grand Union Canal recently emailed a boater without a home mooring telling them how far they should travel in order to comply with s.17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act. He said “… if your craft is seen to be travelling in excess of 17km, moving from place to place every 14 days (unless local restrictions apply) turning around to genuinely cruise in the opposite direction there should be no issues”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, Paul Davies, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The Waterways Ombudsman has told Sally Ash that her language is “not helpful” after two boaters complained about the CRT Council Briefing on Non-Compliant Continuous Cruising. The briefing, written by Head of Boating Ms Ash, alleged that ‘non-compliant continuous cruisers’ were preventing leisure boaters from using visitor moorings.
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Tags: Andrew Walker, complaints, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, Sally Ash, Waterways Ombudsman
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a meeting took place between CRT and BaNES on 2oth March this year in connection with the Council’s assessment of the inclusion of boat dwellers in its Gypsy, Traveller and Housing Strategy. Reportedly some of the BaNES representatives present were not impressed with CRT.
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Tags: BANES Council, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Equality Act, FOI request, liveaboards, mooring policy, Sally Ash, traveller's rights
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Consideration by CRT’s Navigation Advisory Group of the Local Mooring Strategy that was finalised by the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership has been unnacountably delayed. The Mooring Strategy was to be considered by the Navigation Advisory Group (NAG) on 24th April. However, it appears that CRT cancelled this meeting with no explanation and it is not known when the Navigation Advisory group will meet next.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, Grand Union canal, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Mooring Strategy Committee | 6 Comments »
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Following the spate of thefts from boats in the past two weeks, police are patrolling the towpath after dark. They are calling on occupied boats to warn boaters, and also stopping and searching people on the towpath.
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Tags: burglary, continuous cruising, liveaboards, police, Sally Ash
Posted in Community, Continuous Cruisers, News, The Law | No Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The CRT South East visitor mooring consultation ends this Friday 1st March. Please respond if you can. Below we publish an example response to the consultation, apart from comments on individual locations.
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash, South East, visitor moorings
Posted in CRT, Letters to BW and others, Moorings Consultation, News, The Law | No Comments »