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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
CRT has confirmed that the unworkable system of designating the western K&A into “neighbourhoods” is to end tomorrow.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, Mark Stephens, Matthew Symonds, Section 17, visitor moorings, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, April 5th, 2015
The implementation of CRT’s draconian new Licence Terms and Conditions has been delayed by at least a month. In a meeting with some of the boating user groups, CRT stated that the new Terms and Conditions would be implemented on 1st May.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Act, NABO, NBTA, Sian Ferry, towpath mooring control project, towpath mooring management project, unfair contracts, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
Private Eye is a magazine that exposes corruption and satirises the rich and powerful. CRT has been featured in the Eye a number of times in recent years, as has BW. In its 20th February issue, the magazine exposed the links between CRT’s cross country canoe trail and property development.
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Tags: canoeing, corruption, CRT funding, Private Eye, property development
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Saturday, March 14th, 2015
On 30th January, CRT announced changes to the boat licence terms and conditions which it claims are not “a significant change of policy by the Trust”. However, many of these changes seek to unlawfully remove the rights of boaters contrary to the British Waterways Act 1995. To the extent that the changes are unlawful, they also fall foul of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, and some of the proposed changes breach the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, Data Protection Act, FOI request, NABO, unfair contracts
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
In a response to a Freedom of Information request CRT has released information about the changes to the enforcement process against boats without a home mooring which it has announced will be applied to all continuous cruisers from 1st May 2015.
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Tags: continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, equality, FOI request, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Saturday, February 14th, 2015
Yesterday CRT announced that from 1st May 2015 that it is extending its “new continuous cruiser” enforcement process to all boats licensed without a home mooring. It declared that it would refuse to renew the licences of the boats that have moved the least over their licence year unless they obtain a home mooring, and that boats that travel further but whose movement falls short of the movement required by Section 17 3 c ii of the British Waterways Act 1995 would only have their licences renewed for a short period and if their movement was still not considered adequate, they too would be forced to take a mooring or CRT would refuse to renew their licence. Yet CRT has not stated what it means by boats that move the least, and neither has it disclosed what distance it considers acceptable.
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Tags: ACC, AWCC, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT v Mayers, enforcement, IWA, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, moorings, NABO, NBTA, Nigel Moore, RBOA, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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