Lies, 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 ArticleCRT releases second report on K&A Local Plan as enforcement staff re-write...
On 11th November CRT published the second of four planned three-monthly reports on the K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan. The report states that “Between 1 May and 31 October 2014 169 boats have...
View ArticleAre you a new continuous cruiser?
When CRT established the Towpath Mooring Control project (which was quickly renamed the Towpath Mooring Management project) it declared its intention to write to all new continuous cruisers ‘welcoming’...
View ArticleMinimum distance for cc’ers is unlawful according to Section 8 judgement
Usually when CRT wins a Section 8 case it publishes the judgement (if there is one) on its web site. However, it made an exception in the case it won against Geoffrey Mayers, the reason being that this...
View ArticleCRT set minimum distance – without telling us what it is
Yesterday CRT announced that from 1st May 2015 that it is extending its “new continuous cruiser” enforcement process to all boats licensed without a home mooring. It declared that it would refuse to...
View ArticleInformation release throws light on changes to enforcement process for boats...
In a response to a Freedom of Information request CRT has released information about the changes to the enforcement process against boats without a home mooring which it has announced will be applied...
View ArticleCRT unlawfully set minimum distance of “15 to 20 miles” after denying any...
In a statement on Facebook late on Friday 6th March, CRT stated that boats without a home mooring must travel a minimum range in excess of 15 to 20 miles in order to comply with Section 17 (3)(c)(ii)...
View ArticleNo more “neighbourhoods” after 30th April
CRT has confirmed that the unworkable system of designating the western K&A into “neighbourhoods” is to end tomorrow. However in a typically contradictory move CRT has stated that the Visitor...
View ArticleSection 8 cases stayed pending appeal
If you have been served with a Section 8 and CRT is continuing court action against you, you need to make a request to the Court for your case to be stayed pending the result of the appeal in the case...
View ArticleWhat to do if CRT refuses to renew your boat licence for 12 months
CRT’s new policy on boaters without home moorings effective from 1st May 2015 has already meant that many boaters have had renewal of their licence for 12 months refused and a six-month or three -month...
View ArticleShort Term Licences
Here is the internal CRT document that outlines the process by which a customer is required to take out a short term licence and the steps from there to a Section 8 action. CC-monitoring-process As...
View ArticleCRT publish enforcement letters
Following a Freedom of Information request by Allan Richards, CRT has published all the enforcement letters referred to in the continuous cruising enforcement flow chart that Mr Richards obtained in...
View ArticleCRT publish kilometre lengths three months after start of new enforcement policy
Following a Freedom of Information request, CRT has published a list and an interactive map of kilometre lengths for all of the waterways that it owns or manages. This is important information because...
View Article‘Places’ maps look like history
We have been party to four pieces of information that suggest very strongly that CRT will not go ahead with its ‘places’ maps that it first proposed in August 2014. In a meeting in February to discuss...
View ArticleTowpath washed away at Caen Hill
The Caen Hill flight is closed until further notice today (26th October) after part of the towpath was washed away at the Black Horse. It appears paddles at lock 50 were left open overnight and the...
View ArticleCRT makes assurance that no enforcement action will be taken due to Seend...
The K&A boaters action group has obtained an assurance from CRT that it will not take enforcement action against boaters who are trapped between Lock 11 in Bath and Seend (Semington for 70′ boats)...
View ArticleProtest at CRT offices 10th May!
Following the handing in of the Boats are Homes petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Boats are Homes march, boaters are invited to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds...
View ArticleK&A boaters join national protest against CRT’s enforcement policy
Liveaboard boaters from the K&A joined demonstrations outside CRT’s headquarters in Milton Keynes on 10th May where in total about 90 boat dwellers without home moorings protested against the...
View ArticleK&A boater wins Article 8 case against CRT in Court of Appeal in landmark...
K&A boater Matthew Jones yesterday won his appeal against CRT’s attempt to strike out the Article 8 elements of his defence against eviction from CRT’s waterways under Section 8 of the British...
View ArticleCRT drops Section 8 cases following Court of Appeal judgement
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...
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