The corruption of British Waterways is now endemic and pervades every thing that they do.
Strong words?
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Posts Tagged ‘moorings’
Enough is Enough
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Shoddy reporting by the BBC
Friday, March 5th, 2010The BBC reported on the new Foxhangers Marina on Wednesday. Investigative journalism at its best, the sort we expect from the Beeb?
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A positive response – and more babies
Friday, December 11th, 2009A lot has been said, both on this site and at the meetings about the negative impacts of the proposals, understandably, people have been pushed onto the defensive by these threats to our homes and lifestyle. However there is a significant amount of feeling that we can also effect change in a positive way.
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BW consultation – they want to know what we think
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Well not really, not really really, more like ‘this is how it’s gonna be, moan if you want but we’ve decided anyway and now we’ve spoken to everybody but you we suppose we better tick the boxes‘
Your response, your future
Monday, November 30th, 2009Bath
Tuesday 8th December 8pm Love Lounge @ the Bell
Bradford-on-Avon
Thursday 10th December 8pm Canal Tavern
Two meetings, one in Bradford, one in Bath to discuss our collective and individual response to the consultations. As with true sneakiness and contrary to government guidelines on public consultation (yes, there will be a complaint) this consultation straddles Christmas and New Year we feel it is important to get our voice heard as soon as. For the last moorings consultation 8% of the response came from the Western Kennet and Avon. We know that you want to make your voice heard, come along and gather the information and resources to make your response as effective as possible.
There are two consultations running:
1. Moorings Policy for BW’s network in England and Wales, deadline 31 January.
2. Proposals for developing local mooring strategies, deadline 11 January (You may have received a letter about this one, delivered to your boat).
Please be there – BW want to introduce mooring restrictions that could severely restrict our way of life, so responding to these proposals is important for the future of our community! You can read the consultation documents online at:
http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/listening-to-you/consultations-and-reviews/current-consultations
If you can’t come to the meeting, please respond to both consultations. You will find some of our thoughts about the proposals on this website. If you don’t respond your future will be decided without your input.
We cannot emphasis enough how important it is to respond to this consultation, this meeting is a good place to do that.
If you need help getting to either venue, let us know and we’ll co-ordinate lifts.
Consultation responses – a few suggestions
Thursday, November 26th, 2009We have been compiling people’s views on the ignorations and here is the first draft of the responses we have gathered.
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Consultation, bottom upwards
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009During a recent meeting of those of us interested in these issues an interesting point came up.
There’s some interesting comments starting to come in on this topic.
Sally blames dog shit on the boaters
Saturday, November 21st, 2009And all the rest of it, listen here;
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Moorings Ignoration: a rough guide
Friday, November 20th, 2009OK listen up, it’s complicated but i know you can do it.
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