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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Mooring Strategy draft is delivered to Local Waterway Partnership
Thursday, February 7th, 2013Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Mooring, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | No Comments »
CRT Council member urges IWA to spy on law abiding boaters
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 »
Liveaboards fight on for justice
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012Itinerant live-aboard boaters are carrying on their legal challenge of the Canal & River Trust’s unlawful harassment of boat dwellers without home moorings.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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CRT press release signals continued attack on boaters without home moorings
Thursday, October 25th, 2012Just 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 »
Boaters take ‘No Abuse’ message to CRT Annual Meeting
Saturday, October 20th, 2012Three liveaboard boaters attended the CRT Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 27 September to register their objection to the joint CRT and IWA attack on the rights of boaters without home moorings.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, meeting, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, CRT Policy News, Letters to BW and others, News | No Comments »
BW misleads boaters again over legality of guidance for continuous cruising
Friday, June 8th, 2012On 23rd May, BW published a press release stating that the High Court had issued a judgement upholding the lawfulness of its Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring. This is highly misleading; liveaboard boater Nick Brown is continuing his Judicial Review of BW’s Guidance.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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K&A water supply and drought contingency plans for summer 2012
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012The possibility of navigation restrictions and stoppages is one of the reasons why Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act allows boaters without home moorings to stay longer than 14 days in one place if it is reasonable in the circumstances. So if you are trapped by maintenance stoppages or drought measures, don’t worry. Here is some information from BW about water resources, water supply and plans in the event of further drought, from the presentation at the Kennet and Avon Canal User Group meeting on May 3rd.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, drought, Section 17, stoppages, water resources, Waterways Act 1995
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Were you living on the canals on 25 October 1994 without a mooring?
Saturday, October 29th, 2011If you were living on your boat on BW waterways on or before 25 October 1994, you may be protected from enforcement action by an Undertaking which BW made to Parliament during the passage of the 1995 British Waterways Act through Parliament.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, enforcement, Waterways Act 1995
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Legal challenge to revised mooring guidance expected
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011A legal challenge to BW’s revised Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers is expected after BW rejected a “letter before claim” from boater Nick Brown. It is likely that Mr Brown will issue Judicial Review proceedings on the grounds that the revised guidance is ultra vires, in other words BW does not have the legal power to enforce it, and that it does not reflect the meaning intended by Parliament of Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Letters to BW and others, News, The Law | 7 Comments »
Our take on BW’s revised Guidance
Friday, October 14th, 2011BW’s revised Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring follows a meeting with user groups on 23 June. BW has stated that there will be no further consultation or review of this guidance. Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring differs from the draft revision published by BW in April following the judgement in the BW v Davies case.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, Paul Davies, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, Opinion, The Law | No Comments »