Posts Tagged ‘Section 17’
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
K&A boater Matthew Jones yesterday won his appeal against CRT’s attempt to strike out the Article 8 elements of his defence against eviction from CRT’s waterways under Section 8 of the British Waterways Act 1983. The case will now be remitted back to Bristol County Court where Mr Jones will be able to put his Article 8 arguments in full. Mr Jones’s solicitor Community Law Partnership writes:
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Tags: Article 8, bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, enforcement, human rights, liveaboards, Matthew Jones, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters from the K&A joined demonstrations outside CRT’s headquarters in Milton Keynes on 10th May where in total about 90 boat dwellers without home moorings protested against the charity’s punitive and unlawful enforcement action against boats without a home mooring. Some 15 boaters also protested at CRT’s licensing office in Leeds.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Milton Keynes, NBTA, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Following the handing in of the Boats are Homes petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Boats are Homes march, boaters are invited to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds and its Milton Keynes HQ at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 10th May 2016.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Milton Keynes, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, August 29th, 2015
Following a Freedom of Information request, CRT has published a list and an interactive map of kilometre lengths for all of the waterways that it owns or manages.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI request, kilometre lengths, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, August 8th, 2015
Following a Freedom of Information request by Allan Richards, CRT has published all the enforcement letters referred to in the continuous cruising enforcement flow chart that Mr Richards obtained in June shortly before its publication by CRT. We provide some explanation of the letters here.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, enforcement team, FOI request, liveaboards, restricted licences, Section 17, short term licences, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, June 29th, 2015
Here is the internal CRT document that outlines the process by which a customer is required to take out a short term licence and the steps from there to a Section 8 action.
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Tags: 14 day rule, CC monitoring, continuous cruising, enforcement, MAC, monitoring process, Section 17, Section 8, short term licenses, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
CRT’s new policy on boaters without home moorings effective from 1st May 2015 has already meant that many boaters have had renewal of their licence for 12 months refused and a six-month or three -month licence offered instead.
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Tags: 3 month licence, 6 month licence, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, licence renewal, liveaboards, NBTA, refusal to renew licence, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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