Posts Tagged ‘towpath’
Sunday, December 19th, 2021
A group of students from the University of Bath are are investigating the current safety concerns of liveaboard boaters on the River Avon. The research project on River Avon towpath safety is being carried out alongside the Bath River Line project, run by BaNES council, which plans to develop the areas surrounding the River Avon in Bath. The anonymous survey covers safety on the River Avon towpath and aims provide information about the safety needs of liveaboards to the Bath River Line Project.
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Tags: BANES Council, Bath River Line Project, liveaboards, River Avon, towpath, towpath safety
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
The police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a woman who is missing in Devizes. Victoria Clements, 53, has been missing since approximately 1pm on 22nd September 2021 and the police and her friends are concerned for her welfare. She is diabetic. It is believed that she has left the area on foot and that she might have been heading towards more rural locations on the outskirts of the town – so boaters might have seen her on the towpath.
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Tags: Devizes, missing persons, towpath, Victoria Clements, Wiltshire police
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2021
BaNES Council is running a public consultation on river parks and towpath improvements on the River Avon between Churchill Bridge and Newbridge in Bath. The consultation asks questions about people’s use of the towpath but does not include an option to say that you use the towpath for mooring your boat, and does not mention boating at all. This needs to be challenged! The deadline for responses is Friday 8th January 2021.
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Tags: BANES Council, BaNES WaterSpace Study, Bath, Bath River Line Project, consultation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, River Avon, towpath
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Monday, April 13th, 2020
The Government today (13th April 2020) announced that the coronavirus lockdown would not be lifted when it is reviewed later this week. This will have implications for boat movements. Due to the earlier Government announcement that the lockdown will continue until at least 18th April 2020, CRT has extended its suspension of the 14-day rule until 18th April and has advised boaters to only move their boats if it is essential.
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Tags: 14 day rule, Boat Safety Scheme, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Coronavirus, Covid-19, liveaboards, social distancing, towpath, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
Unlike the K&A, the local authority in Nièvre, France, has closed the towpaths of the Canal du Nivernais, which is twinned with the Kennet and Avon Canal. River towpaths and cycle trails are also closed.
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Tags: Canal du Nivernais, canal twinning, Health, K&A Canal Trust, social distancing, towpath
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
CRT has extended the period that boaters can stay on some visitor moorings for 14 days due to the suspension of all but essential boat movements following the Government’s Covid-19 lock-down announcement. Where visitor moorings revert to 14 days in winter, this will now be extended up to 14th April, when CRT will review its suspension of the 14-day rule.
The Boat Safety Scheme is also allowing temporary extension to boat safety certificates for those boats that require an examination in the period up to 14th April. The notice from the Boat Safety Scheme is here NR20-001_COVID-19_BSS_Temporary_Suspension-FINAL
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Tags: 14 day rule, Boat Safety Scheme, Bradford on Avon Town Council, Bradford-on-Avon, community, community support, continuous cruising, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Health, health and safety, liveaboards, towpath, visitor moorings
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
CRT’s interim Regional Director for Wales and the South West, Jon Horsfall, confirmed on 18th July 2019 that CRT remains “committed to delivering” the strategic programmes that were devised by former regional director Richard Thomas in conjunction with User Group Forums in 2018 and 2019 and a study day in which the liveaboard boating community was significantly under-represented despite efforts to persuade the former director to include us.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Corrine Rotherham, enforcement, facilities, families, Jon Horsfall, K&A Users Forum, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Matthew Preston, mooring policy, Regional DIrector, Richard Thomas, school, Sheila Shaw, towpath, towpath tidy
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be on Monday 9th October 2017 at 7.30pm in the Function Room at the Bell By The Green, Estcourt Street, Devizes SN10 1LQ (next to Morrisons and opposite the Green). All are welcome.
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Tags: boat fire safety, continuous cruising, Devizes, enforcement, Fire safety, K&A boaters action group, liveaboards, meeting, towpath, towpath tidy
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