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  1. I have found that the buses before 9.30 are often less than half empty, the same between 5 and 6. The first few buses after 9.30 will be busy with the free bus pass holders. The inflated figures qouted by the council would mean that every bus on the busway is full with people siting on the roof and hanging off the sides. Yet services have been cut in half by Stagecoach with the routes now going round the houses replacing the town services and Whippet removed its services from the busway, in the days of the Huntingdon and District bus company the travel time between Huntingdon and Cambridge via the A14 was only a hour. Yet most of the council bus funding is thrown at the busway, In north Cambridgeshire are routes have been chopped to bits and whats left only runs after 8am and stops before 6pm with long waits between buses. The last bus from Peterborough to March leaves at 5.20pm. last bus from March to Chatteris 3.15pm with no services at the weekend. Ely to Chatteris 5.10pm, March to Wisbich via the station 5.10pm. Yet with a max fare of £2 you would expect a increase in useage, yet it is the long travel times to cover a short distance that puts people off not the fare. Hence I use the train between March and Cambridge (30 minuites) and not the now chopped X8 March Cambridge bus service whih took two hours at half the fare.
  2. Off grid refers to not connected to any of the main utilities https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/off-the-grid
  3. The plans for a increase in buses is a joke, there is a large shortage of bus drivers for the current routes now. Even £2 max fare are going to get more people on buses while they go round the houses, stopping at every lampost. Cambridge to Huntingdon via the busway 1 hour 40 minuites to cover 22 miles. On Saturday, I counted only 17 people getting on and off the bus between Cambridge and Huntingdon. Yet the council useage figures claim that every bus is full
  4. The length of the waiting list for Cambridge is said to be 12 years for a broad beam mooring and 7 years for a narrowbeam mooring. a former neighbour had to wait 9 years before he reached the top of the list for a mooring. Buses in Cambridgeshire are very hit and miss due to the shortage of bus drivers, More so on the weekend as many of the replacement bus routes for the ones chopped last October by Stagecoach only run Monday to Friday or run only in the early morning aand late afternoon with a 7 hour gap between. I had to get from Cambridge to March last Saturday. As no trains were running to March thanks to the RMT sponsored National Holiday, I had to use buses taking aroundbout route of nearly 70 miles with long waits between buses. Normally it would take 30 minuites to cover the 32 miles to March by rail. I left The Royal Papworth at 10.30am and did not arrive in March until nearly 7pm. Before Stagecoach cut 18 of its routes, I could take a bus from Cambridge to March taking 2 hours. As for the moneypit that is the accdent prone busway which is falling apart, with one section that has been closed for months since a bus killed a person on the path with its wing mirror. Ticket machines don't work, services have been reduced, one company has pulled out. The ride is rough and you feel every joint that you go over.
  5. More than half of the class of 83 attended the funeral in Broadstone, So he had a good sendoff and the funds left over were given to the local food bank to help with energy costs. Getting back on subject, I had a chat with Jackie about what her council had been told by Whitehall. She has since got back to me with the information that she has. Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) Alternative Funding. The criteria for this funding is: The household that support is being claimed for is the main or only home address of the person to receive the support. The resident or applicant is responsible for paying the household energy bill. This means either as part of a service charge, rent, or other arrangement and may have had the impact of increased energy bills costs passed on to them between 1 October 2022 - 31 March 2023. The household is not already receiving EBSS payments in whole or in part. The household is not a business premises or other form of non-domestic premises. It must be used solely or mainly for domestic purposes. following people are eligible: care home residents residents of park homes tenants in certain private and social rented homes homes supplied via private grid residents of houseboats on registered moorings residents of caravans on registered sites farmers living in domestic farmhouses off-grid households Travellers on registered sites The Council will make the support payments to applicants bank accounts once appropriate checks have been made. First payments expected to be made by the emd of the month.
  6. Landlords must comply with the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. Pests such as rats, mice, cockroaches and pigeons pose a risk to human health and are covered by the Act. Pests can gain entry to a property through small cracks, drains, pipes and air vents. If you have a gap bigger than a biro pen, a mouse can fit through it. If such gaps exist and the tenant reports a mouse problem, the responsibility will lie with the landlord. Where a new tenant discovers an infestation of cockroaches, or bedbugs soon after moving in, it is likely they were already in existence prior to the beginning of the lease period and therefore the landlord is responsible. This landlord has infect a monopoly of the lower end market for rented housing in the area. His properties tend to be the only ones within the price range of low paid. Many of the other landlords will not take tenants who claim housing benefit.
  7. The landlord is a very nasty price of work who has been getting away with it for years. He well in with local councillors. He been investegated before by Channel 4’s Dispatches and others who have produced a dammning reports of broken windows, rats, cockroaches, damp, dirt and leaking toilets in his 2700 plus properties in Bourthmouth and Boscombe. He exploits the spiralling demand for housing and the money to be made from tenants’ housing benefit. His tenants live in fear, not one tenant has been prepared to speakout in court in the [ast 40 years, yet many have died in his properties.
  8. I'm off to a funeral in tomorrow of lad I went through school with, who died last week alone in a unheated flat from the cold, he had been waiting weeks for the landlord to fix the heating. As he has no family left alive, members of the class of 83 have club together to pay for the funeral and attend. One of the people I'm seeing tomorrow is one of the senior staff in the account payments department at County Hall. So I should get some info on how the rebate will be processed by the council.
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  10. The British public don't like braggarts, it tends to put them off a person or group and find them to be annoying, From my old CED Bragger Someone who brags, they talking arrogantly or boastfully. They often exaggerating their talents and accomplishments, or speaking poorly about others in an effort to make yourselves look better than others
  11. The problem here was that as the marina was in lockdown, nobody was allowed in to the marina. They could not stay and went home. When the law states 'You must not stay overnight on any boat, unless it’s your primary residence' in lockdown. In this case they should not have been charge council tax as it is one of the exemptions listed
  12. The law does not require the homeowner to be the one on the council tax bill Whose name should be on council tax bill? Usually one person, called the liable person, is liable to pay council tax. Nobody under the age of 18 can be a liable person. A man and woman living together will both be liable or a family group all over 18 , even if there is only one name on the bill. If you recall in 2020 and early 2021, Civil court cases were held in close session. You could not even attend court. The added problem here was the long delays in replys (12-14 weeks) from ARP and the fact that ARP sent all letters to the marina which were returned to sender. The mistake they made was to stop paying council tax in the lockdown when the marina was closed and not wait for a reply from ARP first.
  13. The Council tax bill was not in their name, but the They charge me and others council tax in the lockdowns on the moorings when no one was there. The residential address council tax bill was in their son's name not theirs.
  14. They still refused to accept that as prove, and still charge the tax for the period while the marina was in lockdown. One couple was taken to court and lost to the ARP's £900 an hour lawyer. They ended up having to sell the boat to pay the court costs and fines.
  15. The Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP) which collects Council Tax for some councils in the East of England have their own rules as to moorings. The ARP will only accept a Council Tax bill with your name on it from another council to prove the mooring is non-residential. Even if it is clearly stated in the mooring agreement that the mooring is non-residential. The mooring has no post address, any post addressed to a mooring is return to sender. The planning permission states non-residential use only. These are not accepted by the ARP as prove that the mooring was non-residential. The clear prove that the marina was non-residential was in lockdown, when the marina was closed to all and boaters were ordered to go home. Anyone who has had the misforture to deal with the ARP, will know what a pain they are to deal, only two ways to contact them, by phone at one of the rare times that call centre is open or by the contact form on their website followed by a 8 to 10 weeks for a reply thats if you get one and have to send a follow up..
  16. They have been claiming so since 2013 Their twitter profile clear states that
  17. Very proactive in promoting themselves and making song and dance about everything they claim to do. NBTA are moaning, That CRT spends more money on enforcement than on boaters' facilities on the London waterway, When they and their members are the cause of the need for CRT to spend more on enforcement in the first place.
  18. I spoke to the RBOA, RYA and NABO at the Southampton Boat Show in September about the rebate, all three had since June, had been consulted by the Department for Business and Energy on the best way to move forward on. Getting on with the Job is what these organisations do, they had no need to make a song and dance about what they were doing. Unlike the NBTA who make a song and dance about everything they do. I'm sure that the NBTA supporters along the canals in London and the lower River Lee, rather the Government sent someone walking down the towpath chucking bundles of notes, no questions asked on to every boat they pass. Many don't want to be on any database, and may well be in hidding. From what? could be anything from owning money to outstanding warrents. They tend to have a psychological need to hide when ever they see anyone in unform. Some through choice don't have a address where post can be sent or have any form of account. Any application will need to be cross checked over a number of databases to prevent fraud and double payment for some will be temped to try. People whose boats are on legal moorings and pay council tax on the mooring should be a quick and simply process. The NBTA claim to speak for all Liveaboards in the UK. Most Liveaboards are in-fact based on legal moorings in Harbours and river estuary's in Marinas or on swing moorings, far out numbering liveaboards on the canals. Most of the owners of these are either members of the Residential Boat Owners' Association or The Royal Yachting Association or both, Most of them will have never heard of the NBTA.
  19. The marina has no choice, but to follow HMRC ruling as laydown in the letter as regards to the charging of VAT.
  20. Not when the mooring is classed as non residential as the letter to Foxes from the HMRC stated.
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