Posts Tagged ‘traveller’s rights’
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Wiltshire Council has just started a two-year project to tackle inequalities amongst Boaters, Gypsies and Travellers in Wiltshire. This is a partnership between Julian House and the Wiltshire Traveller Reference Group. Julian House is now recruiting for a Boater Outreach and Engagement Worker to cover Bradford on Avon to Devizes and beyond. If you are interested in applying for this part-time job, see https://www.julianhouse.org.uk/jobs.htm
People from the liveaboard boater community are encouraged to apply. The closing date is 12 noon on 27th January 2020.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Health, inequality, Julian House, liveaboards, mental health, traveller's rights, Travelling Community Support Service, Wiltshire County Council, Wiltshire liveaboard boaters survey
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Monday, October 14th, 2019
Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) are carrying out a health survey of liveaboard boaters as part of their campaign to end discrimination in health services. This is the first nationwide health survey of the liveaboard boating community.
You can complete the survey online here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VKWCVHY
Or you can get a paper copy from Sam Worrall, FFT, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3XG. Tel 01273 234777 or 07425 419869 or see www.gypsy-traveller.org
Tags: continuous cruising, discrimination, Friends Families and Travellers, Health, liveaboards, Sam Worrall, survey, traveller's rights
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Monday, April 29th, 2019
Elections to the European Parliament will take place in the UK on May 23rd except in the very unlikely event that agreement on a Brexit deal is reached among MPs before 22 May.
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Tags: continuous cruising, electoral registration, electoral roll, European Parliament election, liveaboards, traveller's rights, voter registration, voting
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
A multi-agency working group on “residential houseboats” was set up by the DEFRA Inland Waterways Policy Land Use section over a year ago in December 2017, “tasked to look at the issue of illegally [sic] moored houseboats”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, DEFRA, FOI requests, Housing and Planning Act 2016, liveaboards, mooring policy, MPs, Public Right of Navigation, Therese Coffey MP, traveller's rights, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, June 4th, 2018
The K&A Boaters’ Action Group’s next meeting is on Monday 11th June 2018 at 7.30pm at the Golden Swan, Wilcot SN9 5NN, a short walk across the green from Wilcot bridge (117). All are welcome.
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Tags: Bath, community, continuous cruising, CRT review of boat licensing, enforcement, Housing and Planning Act 2016, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, meeting, traveller's rights, Wiltshire County Council, Wiltshire liveaboard boaters survey
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Monday, June 4th, 2018
Wiltshire Council is carrying out a consultation regarding the report on its 2017 survey of liveaboard boaters. Please comment by 29th June 2018. Your comments will help to shape the Council’s approach to planning for the accommodation needs for residential boaters. The report is online here http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/planning-gypsy-travellers or you can download it here Wiltshire 2017-draft-boaters-survey-with-appendices
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Tags: community, consultation, continuous cruising, Housing and Planning Act 2016, liveaboards, moorings, traveller's rights, Wiltshire County Council
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Friday, December 29th, 2017
CRT earlier this year stayed Section 8 cases against two boat dwellers without permanent moorings, Matthew Jones and Christopher McKendrick, following the Court of Appeal judgement in Matthew Jones’s favour on 7th March 2017, we can now reveal. The Consent Order sealed by Bristol County Court on 23rd May 2017 shows that CRT reached a settlement with Matthew Jones. Both Mr Jones and Mr McKendrick have now re-licensed their boats without a permanent mooring. Their homes are not now under threat of being seized by the charity. Both had been deemed by CRT not to have moved “far enough”.
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Tags: Article 8, bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, Equality Act, human rights, liveaboards, Matthew Jones, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Friday, September 1st, 2017
Paper copies of the Wiltshire Council boat dwellers survey are available for those who need them. You can collect a copy from Bradford on Avon, Devizes or Pewsey libraries. They will also be available on the Boaters’ Cafe Club outreach boat run by Julian House Gypsy, Traveller, Boater & Roma Community Support Service, which will be at Bradford Lower Wharf next Tuesday 5th September 12pm to 4pm. There may also be some distributed from boats in the Long Pound. Please pass this news on to anyone you know who might need it.
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Tags: Accommodation Needs Assessment, Boats with home moorings., Housing and Planning Act 2016, housing needs, liveaboards, survey, traveller's rights, Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council
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Friday, August 11th, 2017
Wiltshire Council is carrying out an assessment of the housing needs of people who use a boat as their main home and is inviting boat dwellers both with and without a home mooring in Wiltshire to complete a survey. If you are permanently or temporarily in Wiltshire, or you travel through Wiltshire please take part. The survey is online and the Council is also going to make paper copies available. We will publicise how you can get a paper copy as soon as possible.
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Tags: Accommodation Needs Assessment, Bargee Travellers, Boats with home moorings., DCLG, Housing and Planning Act 2016, housing needs, liveaboards, NBTA, survey, traveller's rights, Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council
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Friday, May 12th, 2017
Don’t lose your vote in the election! Voter registration forms for people without a fixed address are available from The Wharf Tea Rooms, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes SN10 1EB. The tea rooms are open every day from 10am to 4pm. Liveaboard boaters are also distributing them along the canal to neighbouring boats. You need to register by 22nd May to vote in the 2017 General Election.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Devizes, electoral registration, electoral roll, general election, liveaboards, traveller's rights, voter registration, voting
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