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Clean Air Strategy
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Clean Air Strategy
David Fletcher looks at the options for boat stoves in the light of new regulations.
DEFRA has just updated its report on the Clean Air Strategy. This is all about the impact of pollution from solid-fuel stoves. DEFRA is telling us how it intends to tackle these (and other) sources of air pollution, making our air healthier to breathe, protecting nature and boosting the economy. Air quality is known to be the biggest environmental health risk in the UK, as it shortens lives and contributes to chronic illness. Health can be affected both by short-term, high-pollution events and by long-term exposure to lower levels.
Meeting with the Waterways Director for Wales and the South West.
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Wales and the South West Region
Mike Rodd reports on the latest meeting with the Waterways Director for Wales and the South West.
On 3rd December, Phil Goulding and I had another of our regular meetings with Richard Thomas, Director of the Wales and South West region, at Devizes. Richard had agreed to meet NABO representatives on a three-monthly basis and this again proved to be a most valuable session. It was clear that Richard has become aware of the urgent need (and value to CRT!) to improve communications with waterways users and he said that he was pleased with the attendance at the recent user forum.
National Inland Navigation Forum Meeting, February 2019
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NINF met at the St Pancras Cruising Club on Saturday 9th February 2019 with all but 1 member bodies represented, together with the General Secretary, Michael Stimpson. This Forum continues to be a useful meeting point bringing together navigational bodies involved in CRT, EA and other waterways.
Short-term moorings – is it time for a review?
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Short-term moorings – is it time for a review?
Mark Tizard calls for a review of the visitor mooring framework policy.
CRT put a lot of time and effort into creating a short-term visitor mooring framework policy, which is available on their website. This laid down an evidence-based process behind any proposed changes to visitor moorings. The policy came to the fore in the 2016 South East visitor mooring consultation, when changes to stay times were proposed for various locations in the region.
NABO was instrumental in pointing out that CRT had failed to follow its own policy. Indeed, once the evidence was gathered, many of the proposed changes were shown to be unnecessary and, to CRT’s credit, these were dropped.