Protest at CRT Devizes office 6th August
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive...
View ArticleMinutes of meeting between boaters, CRT and Michelle Donelan MP published
We are now able to publish the minutes of the meeting between liveaboard boaters, Michelle Donelan MP and CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. The meeting was minuted by Wiltshire Council’s Peter...
View ArticleBoaters stage protest against unlawful enforcement policy at CRT’s Devizes...
Around 30 boat dwellers without home moorings and supporters from the local community took part in a protest opposite Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) office in Devizes on 6th August 2016. The...
View ArticleBoats are Homes Protest, Devizes Wharf 4-8pm 15th September
On Thursday 15th September at 5pm, CRT Chief Richard Parry will launch a CRT publicity boat at Devizes Wharf SN10 1EB as part of the K&A Waterways Partnership AGM. Liveaboard boaters will be there...
View ArticleIf you have school age children, tell CRT you require a reduced cruising...
On 14th February 2017 the Waterways Ombudsman stated in a case report (Case no 933) that CRT intended in the coming weeks to publish “illustrative cruising patterns” for liveaboard boaters with school...
View ArticlePartnership tries to stop K&A being split in CRT restructuring
The K&A could be split into two waterway regions with the western end to Froxfield being run from Gloucester and the eastern end managed from London, after CRT announced on 7th December 2017 that...
View ArticleBoater Eviction in Bath
On 14th September CRT seized a boat without a home mooring that was a vulnerable woman’s home while she was asleep inside it. The woman, who suffers from epilepsy, was later rushed to hospital in an...
View ArticleCRT suspends 14-day limit until mid-April due to UK coronavirus lock down
As a result of the Government lock down announced yesterday 23rd March 2020, Canal & River Trust has issued the following statement: “A statement from Richard Parry Following the most recent...
View ArticleLocal MP’s fundraising canal walk
Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan walked the 87-mile length of the K&A canal last weekend to help raise funds for a new building for Holt Pre-School. She completed the walk yesterday having raised...
View ArticleLicence Surcharge Protest at CRT offices, Birmingham, 25th November – bus...
CRT is planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ on boats licensed without a home mooring, which will start at 5% of the licence fee in April 2024 and increase to 25% by 2028. This could price us off the...
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