I wish the Bill luck. I can't say that I'm surprised at the lack of progress
made by the EA. Especially when you consider awful clanger that they have made
with the Fenland Link. If they can't look after their own project how the hell
can they be expected to promote navigation on other waters!
On the Right of Access to rivers. I would recommend reading the thesis by
Douglas Caffyn called 'The Right of Navigation on Non-tidal Rivers and the
Common Law'.
I have to say it's certainly not a light read, possibly a cure for insomnia,
but exremely well researched. It's available from the IWA bookshop but can
also be got from the British Library via your local library.
Steve
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Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:44 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Dave Wedd wrote:
> From Hansard, 24.1.07:
>
> 24 Jan 2007 : Column 1422
> Access to Inland Waterways
>From what was said there, if that Bill were passed (and the proposer himself
seems to thong it unlikely) then canoeists and rowers would have a statutory
right of access to the canal system which motorised boaters wouldn't, such
right having been removed by Act of Parliament (was it the 1967 Transport
Act? Can't remember.) So that would give us a splendid opportunity to
revive IWA's Campaign for the Rigth of Access from the 1970s.
Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
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