Boaters Voices (must be silenced)
Appparently Sally Ash is less than happy with the lovely film Boater’s Voices, made by Wiltshire Council and, for me at least, evidence that there may be summer again. She has written to Wiltshire...
View ArticleCRT legal director who wasted £250,000 and six years decides to “retire early”
Nigel Johnson, CRT’s legal and corporate services director will retire at the end of 2013 according to a CRT press release. This is surprising, because it was announced last year in a review of...
View ArticleCRT web site misleads continuous cruisers
A recently published page on the CRT web site makes misleading claims that it is impossible to comply with the law on continuous cruising if you have “fixed obligations, such as education, employment...
View ArticleCRT web site misleads the public again about continuous cruising
Sally Ash has posted a new article on CRT’s web site that seeks to discourage people from exercising the right to live on a boat without a home mooring that all CRT licence holders enjoy. “Spreading...
View ArticleWhat to do if CRT tell you your boat has not been sighted in enough...
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...
View ArticleLies, damned lies and CRT boat sightings
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: There is no stated...
View ArticleWaterway Partnership AGM reveals anti-liveaboard bias
A member of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership told a liveaboard boater to “shut up” during the Partnership’s Annual Public Meeting on 12th November. Alan Aldous, an IWA member who sits on...
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