Petition: Security for towpath boat dwellers
Liveaboard boater Simon Greer has started an online petition for security for towpath boat dwellers. You can sign the petition here:...
View ArticleRed diesel – please sign petition
A petition calling on the Government to defend the right of boaters to lawfully use red diesel ends on 9th October. You can sign it here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52421 In May the...
View ArticleNearly 4,500 people pressure CRT to review enforcement against boaters who...
All enforcement cases involving boaters who are ill will be personally scrutinised by CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. This was announced following an online petition that nearly 4,500 people have...
View ArticlePetition reaches 5000 but CRT reneges on personal scrutiny of enforcement...
A boat dweller who is facing court action by CRT was told that Richard Parry will not personally scrutinise every decision to take boat dwellers to court, whether against sick boaters or otherwise,...
View ArticlePensioner publicises ‘No Evictions’ campaign during royal visit
The banner below was seen on a pensioner’s boat during the recent royal visit to Devizes. On Monday 7th April, Princess Anne presented the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service to the Kennet and Avon...
View ArticleCRT to appoint Welfare Officer
Following much adverse publicity about evictions of vulnerable, elderly, ill and disabled boat dwellers, CRT has agreed to appoint a Boater Welfare Liaison Manager for an initial period of 12 months....
View ArticleCRT advertises welfare officer post
CRT has advertised its new Welfare Officer post. The closing date is 12th September. The job description includes reviewing CRT’s enforcement process to “identify and establish improvements that would...
View ArticleCRT moorings consultation sparks angry petition
CRT is holding another consultation on methods for allocation of its directly managed moorings, but despite the previous consultation in 2008 showing overwhelming opposition to the principle of an...
View ArticleCRT welfare officer in post
Sean Williams, the recently appointed CRT Welfare Officer, started work this week. We do not have any contact details for him yet, but assume his email address will be...
View ArticleBoats are homes – please sign petition against CRT’s new policy of refusing...
A petition against CRT’s new policy of refusing to renew licences of boaters without a home mooring has reached almost 12,000 signatures in just 10 days. From 1st May CRT will refuse to re-license all...
View ArticleBoater starts petition for better K&A facilities
Boater Andrew Pinney has started a petition calling on CRT to carry out a comprehensive review of sanitary, water and rubbish facilities on the K&A, which he says are much worse than on most other...
View ArticleNational Boats Are Homes demonstration 16th April
On Saturday 16th April there will be a demonstration to demand that CRT: *stops evicting or threatening to evict boat dwellers without permanent moorings based on their travel pattern, because of an...
View ArticleBoaters march to protect their homes
On 16th April 2016, over 200 boat dwellers including a group from the K&A marched to Downing Street to hand in a petition against CRT’s policy that threatens boaters without a home mooring with...
View ArticleBoats Are Homes campaign stall in Bradford on Avon, Sat 18th March
Liveaboard boaters on the K&A are to hold an information and campaign stall in Lamb Yard, Bradford on Avon BA15 1FG on Saturday 18th March 2017 from 10am to 4pm. The stall will include posters,...
View ArticleK&A boaters join national Boats Are Homes march
A group of fourteen boaters from the K&A joined the national Boats Are Homes march on Saturday 8th April 2017. The demonstration was organised in protest against CRT’s unlawful enforcement policy...
View ArticleCRT Annual Meeting 26th September – book your place now!
Canal & River Trust (CRT) is holding its Annual Public Meeting in Birmingham on Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 10:30 to 12:30. All boat licence holders, customers, waterway users and members of...
View ArticleJoin us to hand in petition against closure of boaters’ rubbish bins, 21st...
Please join us to hand in the petition calling for CRT and Wadworths to re-instate the boaters’ rubbish bins at the Bridge Inn. Join us outside St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon BA15 1DE, on...
View ArticleK&A Boaters’ Action Group next meet 10th December, Bath
The next meeting of the K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be on Monday 10th December 2018 at 7.30pm in the back room, Barley Mow, 32 Bathwick St, Bath BA2 6NZ. All are welcome. Among other things the...
View ArticleJoin us at 9th January demo to hand in bin petition to Wadworths
On Wednesday 9th January 2019 at 12pm to 2pm there will be a demonstration outside Wadworths Brewery, 41-45 Northgate Street, Devizes SN10 1JW to hand in the petition calling for CRT and Wadworths to...
View ArticleWadworths make boaters an offer of new bins at Horton
Following the announcement that boaters would hand in the 400-signature petition to Wadworths Brewery in a demonstration on 9th January, Wadworths contacted one of the boaters who earlier complained...
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