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Graham Davis

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  1. "Securing possession proceedings" is a legal term and has nothing to do with Ward's possessions, but is a way of describing, in this case, land belonging to CaRT. It is a term commonly used in legal documents to remove travellers who are occupying Council land, playing field, car parks, and similar areas.

  2. To be accurate:

    It wasn't a Starline boat that got stuck. It was Starline that went out to recover the boat.
    They'd have a job getting to Llangollen on the Severn; it goes nowhere near it!
    At one time the Severn was navigable to Pool Quay, which is a couple of miles from Welshpool, and Severn Trows regularly got to Iron Bridge.

  3. 57 minutes ago, 1st ade said:

    I'm anti W3W for the reasons stated above.

     

    And there is a subtlety between W3W and other "Big Brand" names such as Google. With W3W the product is the co-ordinate system, not just the software. If Google put their price up too much, the input data is (relatively) open source. You can type a post code, map reference or lat / long into Bing, Duck Duck Go or almost any other search engine and still work out where to go. If W3W say "nope, it's £100 to tell you where what.three.words is" you have no choice. Well, you do. Take it or leave it.


    And yet around here post codes can cover many square miles, so worthless.
    I know, I regularly have to find remote addresses and have to phone them to find out exactly where they are.

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  4. 6 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

     

     

    A PLB will get the rescuers to within 20 metres (often much better) using the 406Mhz signal & GPS location, and then using the 121.5 VHF homer beacon it can get the rescuers to within 'single figure' feet. It also has a flashing SOS light to aid rescue in darkness.

    And are Mountain Rescue or Low Land Rescue or the Ambulance Service, for example, equipped with such receivers?
     

    6 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

    Once you've 'pushed the button' anywhere in the world the nearest SAR facility is informed and the helicopters can be in the air in 5 minutes.

    Oink, oink, flutter, flutter!

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, magnetman said:

    Modern smartphones apparently send the location automatically when doing an emergency call. 

     

    W3W seems clever but in most situations it is probably going to be rather pointless over time as smartphones become more and more advanced.

     

     


    Not all, plus it depends on whether "location" is turned on, plus the accuracy depends on the number of masts received. Around here for example you may only be working off one mast so triangulation is impossible.

    32 minutes ago, magnetman said:

    Is there a facility to send a text message to 999? 


    Yes, and here's a nice simple guide
    https://www.scottishambulance.com/media/kauleql2/about-sending-a-text-to-999-tracked-changes-031013.pdf
    but as Martin says, you need to register first.

  6. 2 hours ago, miragev said:

    I done both to be honest.. approaching other boating letters from the experience I have had is they don’t want to help because in effect your the competition.. and before I posted on here I phoned half a dozen insurers and  was just met with ..no sorry we don’t do static air BnB style insurance cover 


    And perhaps the answer is that no company now wants to offer this cover because the risks are too high, gained from past experience.

  7. 50 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

     

    It's not just insurance - once you start taking money it becomes a commercial operation and you need to have a Commercial Boat Licence, a Commercial Safety certificate (much more involved than a leisure certificate) and a landlords gas and electricity certificates.

     

    Have you investigated EVERYTHING you need and the likely costs ?


    Of course not!
    Who's got the popcorn?

  8. 23 hours ago, cherrycolouredfunk said:

    We also plan to do a weekend stay on a boat and ask some Cambs boaters about their experiences.

     

    A weekend on a boat is not going to anything like adequate to get the "experience"!
    In that time you won't be needing to empty the loo, or carry more gas or coal to the boat.
    Even on a hire boat where the last two probably won't be required I think you need atleast a month to even scrape the surface of what it all means.

  9. 5 hours ago, perfectlydressed said:

    I don't care if someone disagrees with me what I do care about is the rude and insulted way it has been done along with completely false assumptions about my actions, interestingly they don't do it on the facebook page as much because they know their windows are made from glass.


    Well you seem to have been quite capable of being rude and insulting towards people in this thread!
    Perhaps if you told us the full and truthful story behind this thread you might not get some of the assumptions that have been made.
    So over to you.

  10. 1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:

    House insurance is a con often because it takes into account the cost of the land as part of the insured value. In the event of a total destruction of the property the land still remains so you have been overvaluing for the benefit of the insurance company.


    My understanding and reading of my house insurance is that includes the restoration of the land if required, so for example, after a fire the removal of any contaminated soil and it's replacement, plus the rebuilding of the property.

  11. 14 minutes ago, perfectlydressed said:

    Fraud by deception, pretty stupid to make judgements and assumptions without knowing all the facts.


    The ONLY person here making judgements is you becasue you quite obviously do not understand the Law. 
    On the "facts" you have so far told us it is you that has got things wrong, but you don't appear to like being told that.

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  12. 1 hour ago, perfectlydressed said:

    you ask what the problem is?

    Simply because its not legal so a legal transaction should have not have been entered into!

    Who says it isn't legal?
    You are making a statement with no back-up; cite what Laws have been broken.

    1 hour ago, perfectlydressed said:

    Can I rent out your car even if you say I can without meeting the legal requirements?

    If a mooring is not legal would that not have an impact on my insurance for example?

    I have evidence from the land registry.

    Cars have nothing to do with land renting.
    Land Registry proves nothing in this case.

  13. 5 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

     

    Is that what actually happened, or did C&RT not get offered the opportunity to renew the lease ?

    Was it C&RT or the Local Council who evicted the boaters ?


    It does like a few people have assumed that CaRT haven't renewed but without knowing the facts it is impossible to answer, and I suspect that a FoI request to either party would be declined. Personally I suspect the Council haven't offered the renewal to them.

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  14. 9 hours ago, Athy said:

    Are you sure? I would think that arson must involve other people's property, not one's own.

     

    Some might say that he's been arson about for years, but I could not comment.

     

    Simple arson involves the property of someone else.
    Aggrevated arson can include your own property.
    https://www.adamlawsolicitors.co.uk/criminal-defence/arson/#:~:text=For offences involving “simple arson,property%2C including the defendant's own.

  15. 23 hours ago, kris88 said:

    This is exactly what happened at shardlow marina. They have tried to expand it recently using the same trick. Apparently it was the council that stopped the expansion happening not crt. What I don’t understand is how all the people living in static caravans there get away with not paying council tax?


    How do you know they don't?
    I know of a couple of sites around here where they do pay Council Tax, at band A.

     

    7 hours ago, Higgs said:

     

    The NAA contract will need to be challenged. Marinas and moorers need to be given a choice. But while under contract, a marina is obliged. 

     

     

    So why don't you challenge it? 
    "Mouth and Trousers" comes to mind!

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