Posts Tagged ‘NABO’
Friday, October 17th, 2014
CRT is holding another consultation on methods for allocation of its directly managed moorings, but despite the previous consultation in 2008 showing overwhelming opposition to the principle of an auction system, it is refusing to even consider abandoning the auctions. In addition, the consultation only runs for one month, in contravention of the law on consultations. If you oppose the mooring auctions, please respond to the consultation before 3rd November expressing your opposition. Send your response to mooring.updates@canalrivertrust.org.uk. Or make a formal complaint.
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Tags: consultation, liveaboards, mooring auctions, mooring policy, moorings, Moorings Consultation, NABO, petition
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
A boater has carried out an evaluation of the statistics on boat movement in CRT’s first quarterly report on the K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan. Our correspondent reports:
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, NABO, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
This month, many boaters received a letter from CRT alleging that their boat was sighted in less than the “required” number of “neighbourhoods” between Bath and Foxhangers during the three months from June to August 2014. These letters amount to harassment. The K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan was proposed and consulted on as a voluntary agreement, and therefore CRT cannot now state that boaters are “required” to travel through a specific number of “neighbourhoods”. One of the letters is pictured below.
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Tags: complaints, continuous cruising, CRT misinformation, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards, NABO, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Sally Ash, the unpopular Head of Boating, finally retires at the end of this month after 38 years working for BW and CRT. She joined BW as a researcher in 1976 following a Masters degree at Reading University. Here we take a look back at some of her activities and the cost of her career both to boaters and to her employers, not only in financial terms but also in goodwill, time and effort.
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Tags: Boat Licence Terms and Conditions, consultation, continuous cruising, FOI requests, Houseboat Certificates, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, London Boaters, mooring policy, moorings, NABO, River Lea, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, visitor moorings, Waterways Act 1995, Waterways Ombudsman
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
The IWA’s response to the news that Nick Brown discontinued his Judicial Review of CRT’s Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring is alarmingly off-piste. IWA Chair Les Etheridge weighed into the discussion saying “Visitor moorings on the inland waterways need to be managed with the best interests of the whole boating community”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, NABO, Nick Brown, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995, Waterways Ombudsman
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
In a meeting between CRT and the National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) on 14th January, NABO stated that “Putting the legal arguments to one side, NABO, as a policy decision, are happy for the pilot [roving mooring permit] operation to proceed and will monitor a) its success and b) its effect, if any, on other boaters and the availability of moorings. NABO feels that at least a roving mooring permit is a compassionate attempt to resolve a problem which has been allowed to get out of control. NABO will at this time raise no legal objections during this process but would suggest that the effectiveness of the roving mooring permits is monitored at 6 and 12 month intervals and NABO would like to be party to the findings”.
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Tags: liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Local Waterway Partnership, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Richard Parry, roving mooring permits, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, NABO, NBTA, RBOA, Sally Ash
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Sunday, January 13th, 2013
CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, meeting, mooring policy, NABO, Sally Ash, Section 17, U-turn, Waterways Act 1995
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