Canal and River Trust registered but still time to lobby MPs about BW...
On 27th March, the House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee decided to trigger the “super affirmative” procedure for the BW Transfer Order. This means that the time for consideration by...
View ArticleParliamentary Committee recommends CRT must consult boat dwellers
The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has recommended “that the Canal and River Trust demonstrates that it has taken into consideration the specific needs of all stakeholders, including...
View ArticleHouse of Lords to debate BW transfer on 25th June
The House of Lords will debate the Draft British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 in the Grand Committee on Monday 25th June. Please write to as many Lords as you can before Monday...
View ArticleMPs to consider BW Transfer Order on 26th June
The House of Commons First Delegated Legislation Committee will consider the Draft British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 on Tuesday 26th June. Please write to your MP now asking...
View ArticleBW transfer becomes law with concession to itinerant boat dwellers
Both Houses of Parliament passed the BW Transfer Order on 27th June following debates on 25th and 26th June. In the debate in the Commons First Delegated Legislation Committee, Waterways Minister...
View ArticlePetition: 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 ArticleAnother CRT resignation ahead of Parliamentary scrutiny of waterways...
Councillor Fleur de Rhé-Philipe, Chair of the Kennet and Avon Local Waterway Partnership, resigned this week. Tamsin Phipps, who represents canoeists on the Partnership, is now acting as the temporary...
View ArticleBoaters, use your vote in 2013 (and afterwards)
Something that us boaters may or may not be aware of is that we still have the right to vote even though we don’t have a fixed address. There will be local elections for Wiltshire Council (and other...
View ArticleCan you help to deliver voter registration forms this week?
The K&A boaters action group has a big pile of voter registration forms that we would like to deliver to as many boats as we can this week, starting tomorrow (Monday 18th March). We need some help...
View ArticleVoter registration is changing
Liveaboard boaters without a fixed address can register to vote by declaring a local connection. The form to use has changed and requires more information such as your date of birth and National...
View ArticleMake sure you can vote in CRT Council elections
The election for the CRT Council is under way. Polling opened on 13th November and ends on 11th December at midnight. There are two candidates who are liveaboard boaters without home moorings who we...
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 ArticleSecretive anti-liveaboard group set up by DEFRA – please write to your MP now!
A multi-agency working group on “residential houseboats” was set up by the DEFRA Inland Waterways Policy Land Use section over a year ago in December 2017, “tasked to look at the issue of illegally...
View ArticleResist the criminalisation of trespass – write to your MP
Friends, Families and Travellers has launched a new tool to support Gypsies, Travellers and members of the public to write to their MP to register their concerns about the Policing, Crime, Sentencing...
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