Posts Tagged ‘survey’
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Boaters may have received an email or a letter from CRT with a link for the consultation questionnaire for CRT’s review of boat licensing.
This consultation contains two proposals to increase the cost of a boat licence without a home mooring. There is no legal justification for this. Increasing the licence fee for boaters without a home mooring will drive some of our community off the canal and into homelessness.
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Tags: consultation, continuous cruising, CRT review of boat licensing, Denise Yelland, licence fees, liveaboards, price increases, questionnaire, survey
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Friday, September 1st, 2017
Paper copies of the Wiltshire Council boat dwellers survey are available for those who need them. You can collect a copy from Bradford on Avon, Devizes or Pewsey libraries. They will also be available on the Boaters’ Cafe Club outreach boat run by Julian House Gypsy, Traveller, Boater & Roma Community Support Service, which will be at Bradford Lower Wharf next Tuesday 5th September 12pm to 4pm. There may also be some distributed from boats in the Long Pound. Please pass this news on to anyone you know who might need it.
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Tags: Accommodation Needs Assessment, Boats with home moorings., Housing and Planning Act 2016, housing needs, liveaboards, survey, traveller's rights, Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council
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Friday, August 11th, 2017
Wiltshire Council is carrying out an assessment of the housing needs of people who use a boat as their main home and is inviting boat dwellers both with and without a home mooring in Wiltshire to complete a survey. If you are permanently or temporarily in Wiltshire, or you travel through Wiltshire please take part. The survey is online and the Council is also going to make paper copies available. We will publicise how you can get a paper copy as soon as possible.
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Tags: Accommodation Needs Assessment, Bargee Travellers, Boats with home moorings., DCLG, Housing and Planning Act 2016, housing needs, liveaboards, NBTA, survey, traveller's rights, Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
BaNES Council Water Space Study has published the full results of its 2016 survey into the needs of liveaboard boaters in its area. You can read the full report here
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Tags: BANES Council, facilities, River Avon, survey
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Thursday, August 18th, 2016
The BaNES Water Space Partnership (BaNES Council, CRT, Environment Agency and Wessex Water) has commissioned a study looking at the use of the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal within the BaNES area (Hanham to Dundas), and identifying ways in which facilities and services for waterway users can be improved.
See www.waterspacebath.org.uk
As part of this the company working on the project, Atkins, are hosting two focus groups in which representatives of different types of user will be asked to explore the issues they face in making use of the waterways.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, focus group, liveaboards, mooring policy, mooring survey, Moorings Consultation, River Avon, survey
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
BaNES Council has agreed to meet boat dwellers without home moorings to discuss the need for boaters to be directly represented on the Committees tasked with making decisions about the joint BaNES – CRT mooring strategy covering the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal to Limpley Stoke.
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Tags: BANES Council, complaints, continuous cruising, liveaboards, mooring policy, mooring survey, Moorings Consultation, River Avon, survey
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
The first ever survey of liveaboard boaters’ health needs has begun in Bath and NE Somerset. It is being carried out for the NHS, and it’s your chance to have your say about how health services need to be changed to make them easier for boaters to get access to.
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Tags: Bath & NE Somerset, continuous cruising, liveaboards, NHS, survey
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Article by Margaret Greenfields
Between September and December this year a team of trained Gypsy, Traveller, Boater and Showmen interviewers will be carrying out a study of the health needs of members of their communities living in the Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset areas. The survey aims to interview 50 Boaters. If you are interested in taking part please contact one of the people listed at the end of this article. Three Boaters will be trained to act as interviewers.
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Tags: BaNES, Bath, continuous cruiser, Health, liveaboards, survey
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