Posts Tagged ‘Waterways Act 1995’
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
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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
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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
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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 »
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, meeting, mooring policy, NABO, Sally Ash, Section 17, U-turn, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, News, The Law | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 6th, 2013
On 25 October 2012, the same day that the K and A Local Waterway Partnership held its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT published plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act. The briefing paper was produced for the CRT Council meeting on 27 September 2012. CRT Council, which contains a minority of boater representatives most of whom have connections with the IWA, endorsed the plan. We reproduce the briefing below with our comments marked in bold.
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT Council, liveaboards, mooring policy, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Just hours before the K and A Local Waterway Partnership (LWP) was due to hold its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT issued a press release detailing its plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, mooring policy, Section 17, Simon Salem, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | 1 Comment »