Posts Tagged ‘Sally Ash’
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
BW’s Boating Projects report for May 2011 shows that BW is unsure whether people will pay overstaying charges. When Head of Boating Sally Ash reported on the progress of BW’s trial of “Extended stay charging” on the visitor moorings at Thrupp, she wrote: “Pertinent questions: WILL people pay? Are they more likely to pay if we offer pay-by-mobile”. This uncertainty demonstrates that the entire system of overstaying charges is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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Tags: enforcement, FOI request, overstaying charges, Paul Davies, Sally Ash
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
It has emerged from the minutes of a meeting on 8 December 2011 between BW and Bath and NE Somerset Council that BW intend the Local Mooring Strategy to include roving mooring permits.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI requests, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
BW plans to carry out the consultation on the Kennet and Avon Local Mooring Strategy between the end of May and the end of September 2012, according to a Freedom of Information response from BW.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
On 28 November 2011, BW’s Damian Kemp informed members of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group by email that there would be no more meetings and that BW would complete the Mooring Strategy in-house. Yet this message has turned out to be entirely dishonest – BW had already planned in September 2011 that the October 2011 meeting was to be the last.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Damian Kemp, BW’s Project Officer who chaired the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group and did the legwork for the 2009 consultations on National Mooring Policy, Local Mooring Strategies and the now discredited Lee and Stort Moorings Managament Plan, has a new job.
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Tags: Damian Kemp, Lee and Stort, Local Mooring Strategy, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Letters to BW and others, Moorings Consultation, News | 1 Comment »
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
The tenth meeting of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group took place on 11th October at Wiltshire Council offices, Chippenham. Brian has taken over from Kev as one of the representatives of unaffiliated boaters. The agenda was as follows: finalising maps; enforcement and defining neighbourhoods. K and A Manager Mark Stephens chaired the meeting in the absence of Project Manager Damian Kemp. Sally Ash, the original BW Chair, had already informed the group that her presence appeared to be “not conducive to progress”.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Mark Stephens, Sally Ash, Section 17, traveller's rights, Waterways Act 1995, Wiltshire County Council
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
BW have recently amended their Guidance for Continuous Cruisers
Announced here
and published here
BW’s covering statement in the press release;
“The existing 2004 ‘mooring guidance for continuous cruisers’ has been refined to be more easily understood and to reflect the Judgment in the case of British Waterways v Davies, in which the Court found that moving up and down within a 10 mile stretch of the Kennet & Avon Canal with no home mooring did not amount to bona fide navigation.”
Seems to be a malicious, though not unexpected, rewriting of Judge O’Malley’s judgement which specifically states that this is not the case.
Tags: continuous cruiser, continuous cruising, Moorings Guidance for Continuous Crusiers, Paul Davies, Sally Ash
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) representative on the Mooring Strategy Steering Group has made it clear that his understanding of the local mooring strategy is to “reduce the numbers of those living on the canal” so that within 5 years “they would be able to plan for a different life-style”. In an email to BW’s Sally Ash, the IWA rep Tim Wheeldon also stated that “there will be no question of anyone being forced to give up home, school or job in the short term“.
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Tags: continuous cruising, equality, Inland Waterways Association, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
User groups met BW’s Legal Director Nigel Johnson on 23 June to discuss changes to the Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers following the BW v Paul Davies judgement. NABO, RBOA and the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) were present, as were user groups like the IWA and British Marine Federation that favour BW’s attitude to continuous cruisers. BW Head of Enforcement Denise Yelland and Head of Boating Sally Ash were also present.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, enforcement team, Nigel Johnson, Paul Davies, Sally Ash, Section 17
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