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	<title>Kennet and Avon Boating Community Website &#187; Letters to BW and others</title>
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	<description>A resource for all boaters who live on and visit the Western end of the Kennet and Avon Canal</description>
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		<title>“The politest climb down I’ve ever seen” – BW promises to release minutes of meetings with K&amp;A Trust</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=861</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A boater recently appealed against BW’s refusal to provide information and minutes of meetings which had taken place with the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust (see previous article on this web site “I don’t believe it” http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=831 ). This is the apology she received from Caroline Killeavy, BW’s Head of Customer Relations:
“Thank you for your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>﻿“I Never Give In To Bullies” &#8211; A Letter To BW</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=841</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Continuous Cruisers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moorings Consultation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[14 day rule]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[continuous cruiser]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sally Ash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, BW proposed in a previous consultation to increase the licence fee for boats without a home mooring by £150. This plan provoked enormous opposition from boaters. One of the responses to that 2008 consultation summed up how many of us feel. We decided it was time to share this inspiring and angry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t believe it!</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=831</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A boater made this Freedom of Information request to BW recently:
 
&#8220;Further to the attached Press Release from British Waterways dated 25 May 2010, please could you send me the minutes of the discussions regarding setting up a Waterways Partnership Board for the Kennet and Avon canal, referred to in the press release as:
 
 &#8217;discussions, which also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BW contradicts itself over consultation</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=793</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Panda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters to BW and others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moorings Consultation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damian Kemp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Ash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The email correspondence below from Sarina Young of BW completely contradicts what Damian Kemp told the Kennet and Avon canal User Group meeting on 29 April. According to Damian, the consultation responses have been analysed. According to Sarina on 7 May, they have not been analysed. Draw your own conclusions!

RE: Residential moorings under BW jurisdiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BW&#8217;s take on travellers</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=675</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Letters to BW and others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Waterways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Act 2004]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mooring policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Ash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traveller's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our correspondents recently asked Robin for British Waterways reaction to the recent DCLG ruling that &#8216;bargee travellers&#8217; were bona-fide (couldn&#8217;t resist that one) travellers as far as Section 225 of the Housing Act 2004 is concerned.
Our very own Final Solution replied in her usual compassionate vein and, displaying a political skill we rarely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CC Warrior</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=568</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Continuous Cruisers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One person&#8217;s resistance to British Waterway&#8217;s campaign against boaters on the Kennet and Avon
These letters tell the story of one boater&#8217;s resistance to BW&#8217;s unlawful attempt to enforce the Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers as if it is the law.

The whole correspondence. Please note this tale is 2.9mB long
The letters show the extent to which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to Robin</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=480</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Continuous Cruisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to BW and others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradford Wharf]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hire boat companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hire boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mooring policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We thought it would be useful to have the whole of this sorry tale, told in installments on this site in one place.
if you want to know what causes congestion along the Kennet and Avon, read on, if you want to know how dismissively the chief executive treats genuine concerns from a large portion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Reply to Robin Evans Regarding the expansion of hire-boating on Kennet &amp; Avon (West)</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=477</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>poshratz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[congestion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Robin,
thank you so much for your illuminating reply.
I think that the fact that BW have presided over a more than 100% increase in hire-boating between Devizes and Bath in 6 years goes a long way to explaining congestion at locks, and other perceived problems on our otherwise tranquil and beautiful canal.

As much as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reply from BW Chief Robin Evans providing details of Hire Boat expansion on Kennet &amp; Avon (West)</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=476</link>
		<comments>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=476#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>poshratz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congestion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hire boat companies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the delay in replying to your previous e-mail.
The 40% statistic is a national one.  The K&#38;A has gone against this trend and you are correct that there has been a significant increase here – a doubling in fact in the number of hireboats based between the bottom of Devizes locks and Bristol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with Claverton Parish Council</title>
		<link>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=464</link>
		<comments>http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=464#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to our letter to Claverton and Monkton Combe Parish Councils
posted here; http://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=210 we have received the following reply from the Clerk to Claverton Parish Council;

As the meeting was not a Claverton Parish Council Meeting I was not personally involved but please be assured there will be no evasion to your question from the Claverton [...]]]></description>
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