Posts Tagged ‘continuous cruising’
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Following a legal challenge by a boater to the decision by BaNES Council to close the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between November and March, boaters can now moor at Mead Lane for 14 days all year round. The river bank there is owned by BaNES.
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Tags: BANES Council, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, Judicial Review, liveaboards, Mead Lane, police, River Avon, Saltford
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
Following a Judicial Review challenge by Community Law Partnership (CLP) on behalf of a liveaboard boater, BaNES Council is reconsidering its decision to close the 14 day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between the beginning of November and the end of February every year. The judicial review has therefore been stayed until the end of June 2021. We would encourage any boaters who are concerned about the loss of these moorings to make submissions to BaNES Council: contact Mandy_bishop@bathnes.gov.uk
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Tags: BANES Council, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, Judicial Review, liveaboards, Mead Lane, River Avon, Saltford, Travellers Advice Team
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
From Friday 14th May 2021, the Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service will be running second dose Covid-19 vaccination clinics by boat. Please spread the word to anyone who may not have seen the message on this web site or on Facebook.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccination, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, nb Litania, Travelling Community Support Service
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Friends, Families and Travellers has launched a new tool to support Gypsies, Travellers and members of the public to write to their MP to register their concerns about the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. This new law will criminalise both peaceful protest and the nomadic way of life.
The Bill proposes extremely harsh legislation to criminalise trespass, which will criminalise Travellers living on roadside camps and is likely to impact upon everyone who is or wishes to live nomadically by culture, choice or necessity, including liveaboard boaters without a home mooring.
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Tags: continuous cruising, criminalisation of trespass, Friends Families and Travellers, liveaboards, nomadic way of life, Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, traveller's rights
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Boat movement and mooring enforcement resumed yesterday 12th April 2021 as the Coronavirus lockdown continued to be eased. CRT has stated that boaters without a home mooring have 14 days from yesterday to move from the place where they were moored during the lockdown, meaning that they need to have moved by 26th April to avoid any enforcement action.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Coronavirus, enforcement, hire boats, leisure boating, liveaboards, lockdown, overnight stays, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
The deadline for completing the 2021 Census is the end of April, and the Census telephone helpline has added a special line for people living on boats or in caravans, vans, tents or other transient accommodation. This follows the severe difficulties that some liveaboard boaters experienced trying to get a Unique Access Code to do the census online. You can now call the Census helpline and select option 4 .
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Tags: census, continuous cruising, liveaboards, traveller's rights
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
From Tuesday 6th April 2021, the Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service will be running Covid-19 vaccination clinics by boat.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccination, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, nb Litania, Travelling Community Support Service
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
CRT has stated that it will remove any items left on or beside the towpath between Smelly Bridge (Bridge 173) and Avoncliff if these are not removed before April 2021. Due to the pandemic, CRT has provided a skip at Bridge 173 for boaters to dispose of any unwanted items.
CRT is threatening to terminate the licences of boaters who “persistently obstruct the towpath or use Trust land for storing items from their boat”. This is another reason to oppose and resist CRT’s proposed changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions
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Tags: Article 8, Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, Byelaws, complaints, continuous cruising, hire boats, liveaboards, stag parties, traveller's rights
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
CRT has stated that boaters without a home mooring on a restricted 6-month licence are not expected to cover the same range as those on a 12-month licence. Matthew Aymes, CRT Customer Support Manager, Licence Support (ie enforcement manager) said in an email on 23rd February 2021:
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Tags: 6 month licence, Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, NBTA, restricted licences, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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