Posts Tagged ‘Section 17’
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
Posted in CRT Policy News, News | No Comments »
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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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 »
Friday, March 29th, 2013
A recent Freedom of Information response shows that a decision was made in March 2012 to focus enforcement on boats moving 5km or less.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, FOI requests, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in A-Featured Articles, Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, FOI Act requests, News | No Comments »
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
CRT is currently recruiting seven new staff whose main purpose will be to persuade boat dwellers without home moorings to accept “new policies”; making sure that CRT’s “messages are accurately understood by social and print media as well as all those affected by changes ” and “helping to develop understanding of the legal framework within which we exercise our responsibilities as navigation authority”. Seven posts have been advertised; these are three Community Participation Managers and three Towpath Mooring Control Managers for London, the South and the North, plus an Administrator. The total cost is around £500,000.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring policy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in A-Featured Articles, Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Mooring, News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
The K&A Local Waterway Partnership Moorings Sub-Group delivered its proposals for the local mooring strategy to a meeting of the full Partnership on 31st January.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Mooring, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | No Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
An enforcement officer has been forced to reconsider ordering an injured boater to move within 48 hours, and has agreed that the boater can stay on a visitor mooring for the time that a doctor has recommended for the injury to heal.
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Tags: enforcement, mooring, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Health, Letters to BW and others, Lifestyle, Mooring, News | No Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
Vaughan Welch, one of the four private boater representatives elected to the CRT Council, has recently written an article encouraging IWA members to spy on boaters who comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Harassment, Inland Waterways Association, liveaboards, Section 17, Vaughan Welch, Waterways Act 1995, West Midlands
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Mooring, News, Opinion | 3 Comments »