Licence review outcome threatens return of discredited local mooring strategies
CRT announced on 6th March 2018 that it would not increase licence fees for boats without a home mooring. However there will be fee increases for widebeams and significant reductions in the prompt...
View ArticlePlease comment on Wiltshire Council liveaboard boaters survey report by 29th...
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...
View ArticleGovernment consultation on Home Education – ends 24th June 2019
The Department for Education is carrying out a consultation on setting up a compulsory registration and monitoring scheme of children who are educated at home or not in mainstream schools. It closes on...
View ArticleCRT national plans will make life more difficult for liveaboards, even with...
CRT’s is pressing ahead with plans that will affect liveaboard boaters without a home mooring, mostly by making the lives of our community more difficult. Firstly CRT is developing plans that were...
View ArticleBaNES consultation on Mead Lane moorings, respond by 31st Oct, drop-in...
BaNES Council is holding another consultation about the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon. The deadline is 31st October 2019. Please respond to this so that the views of boaters...
View ArticleBoaters to address BaNES Council on Mead Lane moorings consultation report
Liveaboard boaters will address BaNES Council on the importance of keeping the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford open on Thursday 16th January 2020. The consultation report will be discussed by the...
View ArticleBaNES Council votes to close Mead Lane moorings
Despite verbal and written submissions to the Council meeting from liveaboard boaters, BaNES Council cabinet voted on on 16th January 2020 to close Mead Lane moorings on the River Avon and to carry out...
View ArticlePlease respond to Wiltshire Gypsy and Traveller strategy consultation survey...
Wiltshire Council is consulting on its future Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Boater (GRT&B) strategy. Please make sure that the voices and views of the liveaboard boater community are heard by...
View ArticleBaNES Council re-opens Mead Lane moorings
Last week BaNES Council reversed the decision that it made in January and has re-opened the 14-day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford on the River Avon, until a structural survey of the river bank is...
View ArticleGovernment consultation on phasing out red diesel, please respond by 1st October
The Government is planning legislation to prohibit the use of red diesel for propulsion in “private pleasure boats” (in the Government’s eyes this seems to include boats used as homes), following the...
View ArticleBaNES to decide future of Mead Lane moorings on 8th October after survey...
In January 2020 BaNES Council attempted to close the 14-day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford following a long campaign by local residents hostile to liveaboard boaters. Allegations were made that the...
View ArticleBaNES Council votes to close and relocate Mead Lane moorings by 2022
On 8th October, BaNES Council Cabinet voted unanimously to close the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, by November 2022 and relocate the 14-day mooring space. It is not clear what will happen if the...
View ArticleOppose CRT’s proposed changes to Boat Licence Terms and Conditions before...
The CRT consultation on changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions ends on Sunday 21st December 2020. We think CRT’s proposals for changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions are...
View ArticleImportant boaters meeting next Monday 30th November to discuss CRT licence...
The K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be holding a telephone meeting on Monday 30th November 2020 at 7.30pm-9.30pm to discuss the current CRT consultation on changes to the Boat Licence Terms and...
View ArticleOnly a week left to oppose CRTs proposed changes to Boat Licence Terms and...
The CRT consultation on proposed changes to Boat Licence Terms and Conditions ends on Monday 21st December 2020. You can only respond to the consultation online here...
View ArticlePlease respond by 8th Jan to BaNES Council towpath consultation
BaNES Council is running a public consultation on river parks and towpath improvements on the River Avon between Churchill Bridge and Newbridge in Bath. The consultation asks questions about people’s...
View ArticlePlease 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...
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