CRT seeks liveaboard boater for Navigation Advisory Committee
CRT is looking for a boat dweller without a home mooring to join its Navigation Advisory Group Licensing and Mooring sub-group. This person needs to be someone who understands and campaigns for the...
View ArticleFloating Cinema to tour K&A this summer
The Floating Cinema, a mobile multifunctional arts space on a purpose-built narrowboat, is coming to the K&A via Brentford between 4th June and 2nd August. The Floating Cinema is known for its...
View ArticleMark Stephens wins K&A Trust John Gould award
Yesterday the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust presented former K&A manager Mark Stephens with the Trust’s John Gould Award for 2014. The award is presented to a person or group who has “undertaken...
View ArticleBoat Fire Safety week May 25th to 31st
Following the tragic death of a boater in a fire on a boat at Hilperton Marsh last November, Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service is once again sending Boat Fire Safety Advisers cycling along the towpath...
View ArticleAn attempt to restore mooring on the river in Bath
Because B&NES council are the land owners for the banks of the river running from Bath flight bottom lock up to Pulteney, they have the legal right to control who moors on the banks. You do not...
View ArticleFundraising canal walk by Alzheimer’s Support
Alzheimer’s Support, a charity that provides services to people with dementia in Wiltshire, is marking its 25th anniversary with a sponsored fundraising walk along the K&A from Bath to Pewsey this...
View ArticleFloating Cinema arts event management training days, Devizes, 8th and 9th June
The Floating Cinema, which is coming to the K&A between 4th June and 2nd August, is running two arts event management training days for volunteers in Devizes on 8th and 9th June. The Cinema is...
View ArticleNew Waterways Chaplain on the K&A
Sue Stapleton on nb Eagle, who at present travels mainly between Hungerford and Devizes, has recently become a Waterways Chaplain with Workplace Matters. The Waterways Chaplaincy provides practical...
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 ArticleSally Ash rewarded for ruining the lives of boat dwellers
Sally Ash, who as CRT/BW Head of Boating did so much to ruin the lives of boat dwellers without home moorings, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. This is the extract from the...
View ArticleMobile companies to make 0800 numbers free from July
From 1st July, all 0800 or 0808 numbers will be free for all callers including mobile phone users. Numbers starting 0800 or 0808 have been free when dialled from a landline, but mobile users are often...
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 ArticleFloating Cinema to show Boaters Voices
The Floating Cinema, which is currently travelling along the K&A to Bristol, is showing Wiltshire Council’s 30 minute film Boaters Voices this week. Tomorrow (30th June) the cinema will be...
View ArticleWinter moorings cut
If you were looking forward to being able to moor for 14 days at Darlington Wharf, Devizes Wharf or Crofton basin this winter, tough. CRT has yet again changed the way it runs its winter moorings, and...
View ArticleASBO officer wants videos of stag party behaviour
Following discussions with liveaboard boaters, Tim Harris, the Antisocial Behaviour Officer for BaNES has asked for video evidence of stag party hire boat crews causing damage to boats or behaving...
View ArticleEnforcement officer suspended
According to a source close to CRT, enforcement officers have to take a blood test for drugs and alcohol before they can drive CRT patrol boats. Steve England, enforcement officer on the Gloucester and...
View ArticleUpdate on stolen boat
We have been informed that the police are treating the theft of the Dudley Castle as a civil matter. This means that is has not been logged as a crime and the police are treating it as a dispute over...
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 ArticleK&A liveaboard boater appointed to CRT advisory group
Sam Worrall, a liveaboard boater without a home mooring on the K&A, has been appointed to CRT’s Navigation Advisory Group (NAG) Licensing and Moorings Sub-Group. Sam is one of Julian House’s two...
View ArticleBoater starts Facebook group to log speeding cycle incidents
Boater Pete Leigh has started a Facebook page to report incidents with speeding cyclists on towpaths. If you are on Facebook you can join the group Speeding Cyclists on Towpaths here...
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