Here are the draft minutes of the Local Mooring Strategy meeting held on 1st April
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Draft minutes, 1st April Local Mooring Strategy meeting
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011User Group Meeting: “Not a good time to become a charity” says K and A Manager
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Several of us attended the User Group Meeting in Devizes on 4th April. The meeting covered local management issues and briefly touched on national BW matters. Functions such as enforcement are now done by a centralised team which is not managed from Devizes, so little information was provided on these matters. Waterway manager Mark Stephens gave a brief update on national developments and their impact on the K and A.
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K and A User Group meeting 4th April
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011The next Kennet and Avon User Group meeting will take place on Monday 4th April 2011, 7pm-9pm at the Kennet & Avon Trust Offices, The Wharf, Devizes. Boaters have attended the past few User Group Meetings and made it clear to BW what they think of their attempts at unlawful enforcement of the Mooring Guidance for Continuous Cruisers, the Local Mooring Strategy, and other issues. Lifts may be available, contact info@boatingcommunity.org.uk
If you have questions you want to ask, or if you want to tell BW what you think, come to the User Group meeting. To put something on the agenda, contact British Waterways, Bath Road, Devizes SN10 1QR or enquiries.kennetavon@britishwaterways.co.uk clearly marked “Agenda”.
Deep Clean!
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Ten adults and three children carried out a Gordon Brown-style (who?) deep clean of the towpath between Bradford lock and Limpley Stoke on Saturday 13th November. Mark Stephens, Manager of the Kennet and Avon Canal, took time out of his weekend to greet the towpath tidiers and was suitably impressed by the first Bradford on Avon Star Class work boat, built at Bradford Wharf in 2008.
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Notes from the K and A User Group meeting 29 September 2010
Friday, November 12th, 2010The last Kennet and Avon Canal User Group meeting took place on 29 September. A volunteer has kindly provided us with a transcript of the discussion, which you can read in full below if you want to know what took place. The volunteer says “Despite my best efforts, these notes are likely to be partial in both senses of the word. Occasionally I have added my own thoughts as footnotes where it seemed appropriate.” Here it is:
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Mark Stephens’ emails
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Following our incomplete story, BW and the K and A Trust: After the apology, the answers! (July 2010 posts), we have received the emails between Mark Stephens, K&A Manager, and the Trust, requested using Freedom of Information. These emails include the draft minutes of the User Group meeting on 29 April. They also show Mark talking about the boaters’ towpath tidy, saying how pleased he is that people are volunteering without being asked, but also saying that some control is needed. Mark, if you’re reading this, one of the people organising the clean-up tried many times to talk to you on the phone to ask permission to do this, with no joy. So we went ahead and tidied the towpath anyway.
The emails also show that the main focus of the Trust’s partnership with BW is the use of volunteers to carry out maintenance of the canal. A good reason to get involved methinks. It doesn’t look like the Trust will be involved with enforcement, but we still don’t know what the partnership agreement actually says. At the last request for it, we were told it hadn’t yet been drawn up.
The emails are here. Mark Stephens emails 1 Mark Stephens emails 2 Mark Stephens emails 3 Mark Stephens emails 4 Mark Stephens emails 5 Mark Stephens emails 6
BW and the K and A Trust: After the apology, the answers!
Thursday, July 8th, 2010I have now had a response from BW to my request for an internal review of its refusal to send me minutes of meetings with the K&A Trust. Here it is:
Further to Caroline Killeavy’s correspondence with you I am responding to your request for all documents regarding: …“Please could you send me the minutes or notes of all meetings between British Waterways and the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust which took place between 1 January 2009 and 23 March 2010. Please could you send me copies of all email correspondence and notes of telephone calls and conversations to British Waterways from the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust between 1 January 2009 and 23 March 2010. Please could you send me copies of all email correspondence and notes of telephone calls and conversations to the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust from British Waterways between 1 January 2009 and 23 March 2010. Please could you send me a list of the dates, times, locations and attendees of meetings between British Waterways and the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust between 1 January 2009 and 23 March 2010.”
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Consultation stitch-up at Kennet and Avon User Group meeting
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Although 73 out of 98 responses to the consultation on local mooring strategies opposed the idea, BW has said it will go ahead and start setting up the first local mooring strategy group on the Kennet and Avon between Devizes and Bath. BW justifies this by saying that many of the consultation responses were from groups and so these responses were treated as being from the total number of their membership rather than one response. I believe that this completely discredits the consultation process
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Why did we bother?
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The following report appeared on Narrowboatworld yesterday, see:
http://www.narrowboatworld.com/index.php/leatest/1776-mooring-consultations
It says:
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User Group Meeting
Friday, April 9th, 2010The next Kennet and Avon User Group Meeting will take place at Devizes Wharf on Thursday 29th April 2010 at 7pm. Lifts may be available from Bath, Bradford-on-Avon, let us know if you need one.
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