Posts Tagged ‘Section 17’
Thursday, May 1st, 2014
The interim 12-month local plan for the K&A between Bath and Foxhangers starts today, 1st May 2014. We publish the information that was emailed to boaters on the K&A yesterday below and we will publish our analysis of the legality of this plan soon.
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Tags: continuous cruising, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring policy, Moorings Consultation, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
There have been some developments in CRT’s enforcement practice along the K&A, according to conversations between boaters and CRT staff.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Corrine Rotherham, Denise Yelland, enforcement, enforcement team, Section 17, Sheila Shaw, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
The IWA’s response to the news that Nick Brown discontinued his Judicial Review of CRT’s Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring is alarmingly off-piste. IWA Chair Les Etheridge weighed into the discussion saying “Visitor moorings on the inland waterways need to be managed with the best interests of the whole boating community”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, NABO, Nick Brown, Sally Ash, Section 17, 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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Friday, February 21st, 2014
Nick Brown, claimant in the judicial review proceedings against Canal & River Trust (CRT) to decide whether the Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring is lawful, discontinued the action on 19th February. He said “During the hearing it became apparent that this case could not after all decide on the lawfulness of the Guidance because I am not facing any enforcement action myself. Therefore the case should not continue”.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, Nick Brown, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, February 17th, 2014
A boat dweller who is facing court action by CRT was told that Richard Parry will not personally scrutinise every decision to take boat dwellers to court, whether against sick boaters or otherwise, according to a petition on the 38 degrees web site. This is in direct contradiction to the discussion between a K&A boater and Mr Parry.
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Tags: continuous cruising, equality, liveaboards, petition, Richard Parry, Sally Ash, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, January 18th, 2014
A summary and report on the responses to the consultation on the Towpath Mooring Plan for the K&A west of Devizes was published by CRT yesterday. This showed that those who responded to the consultation strongly support the proposals.
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Tags: Bathampton Parish Council, Claverton Parish Council, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, mooring, Moorings Consultation, Sally Ash, Section 17, Valley Parishes Alliance, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
Sally Ash has posted a new article on CRT’s web site that seeks to discourage people from exercising the right to live on a boat without a home mooring that all CRT licence holders enjoy. “Spreading the word about the demands of living afloat” misinforms people, saying that the law does not allow them to “simply to move around within a small area” and blames continuous cruisers for spoiling everybody’s enjoyment of the waterways.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, Drifters Leisure Limited, hire boat companies, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, November 17th, 2013
A recently published page on the CRT web site makes misleading claims that it is impossible to comply with the law on continuous cruising if you have “fixed obligations, such as education, employment or healthcare, in any one area”. The article wrongly states that you cannot live on a boat without a home mooring if you stay in “one area” but “must use the boat to genuinely cruise in a mainly progressive fashion (A to B to C to D rather than A to B to A to B) from place to place”.
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Tags: association, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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