Please write to your MP now about CRT’s proposed changes to boat licence T&C!
In the next few weeks CRT will be starting to finalise the changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions following the consultation that ended on 21st December 2020. Please write to your MP, or...
View ArticleBoaters can continue to use red diesel in England, Wales and Scotland
The Government has responded to the Treasury consultation on reforms to the tax treatment of red diesel that ran in the summer of 2020. The owners of private pleasure boats, a term within which the...
View ArticleSend your photos, videos or accounts of dangerous boat handling under the...
The Department for Transport (DfT) is running a consultation on strengthening enforcement against the dangerous use of recreational and personal watercraft. The consultation mainly concerns the...
View ArticlePlease complete Wiltshire policing survey before 22nd November
If you think that Wiltshire Police should take crime on the K&A canal such as generator thefts or hire boat stag parties deliberately ramming private boats more seriously, now’s your chance to have...
View ArticleOnly three days left to object to Ferry Lane parking restrictions
It has emerged that BaNES Council is proposing parking restrictions and parking bans along Ferry Lane, Claverton. Some areas of the lane are proposed to be ‘no parking at any time’ and others are...
View ArticleParking restrictions in Ferry Lane shelved following representations from...
Earlier this year, BaNES Council consulted on a number of parking restrictions in locations near the K&A Canal including Claverton, Bathampton and Bath. Most of the restrictions were agreed,...
View ArticleCRT consultation on minimum standards for boater facilities, deadline 21st...
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has announced a consultation on minimum standards for boater facilities. This is the first stage of a longer review and consultation regarding boater facilities and aims...
View ArticleOppose licence fee increases for boaters without a home mooring and widebeams!
Canal & River Trust’s consultation on future boat licence pricing proposes to impose higher fees for boats without a home mooring. Please oppose this attack on our community by rejecting it in the...
View ArticleOnly 9 days left to respond to CRT’s discriminatory Licence Fee ‘Consultation’
CRT’s consultation on future boat licence pricing proposes to impose higher fees for boats without a home mooring. Have you filled in the consultation survey yet? Please oppose this attack on our...
View ArticleHelp Bristol Harbour boaters fight huge mooring fee hikes
Bristol’s harbour community is seeking a Judicial Review against Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees’ Cabinet decision to implement unreasonable new harbour fees and charges, without conducting stakeholder...
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