New water tap for Avoncliff
A new water tap is going to be installed at Avoncliff this year, according to K&A Manager Mark Stephens. This is to conserve water by avoiding the need for boats to go up through Bradford lock and...
View ArticleBins to be re-instated at Hungerford and Devizes Wharf
Following a 148-signature petition and complaints to CRT, K&A Manager Mark Stephens has agreed to re-instate the rubbish bins for boaters in Hungerford and Devizes Wharf. Other bin stores will be...
View ArticleCRT to upgrade K&A sanitary stations
CRT announced last week that it had allocated £225,000 towards upgrading sanitary stations on the K&A and in the North West, the Midlands and London as part of a new programme of improvements...
View ArticleCRT rubbish collection includes recycling
Following the release of a copy of the contract between CRT and Biffa for rubbish collection, it is clear that boaters can recycle glass, plastic, non-hazardous metal, paper, card and textiles by...
View ArticleMark Stephens to leave K&A
Mark Stephens is leaving the K&A at the end of this month to take on a national role within CRT. This is surprise news as in May 2013 Mr Stephens was keen to let boaters know that he was here for...
View ArticleCRT bins its rubbish promises
At the K&A Users Forum on 23rd April 2014, Waterway Manager Mark Stephens agreed that he would speak to Wiltshire Council about re-instating the boaters’ rubbish bins at Devizes Wharf, where there...
View ArticleWorthington is acting
Nick Worthington, who has taken over from Mark Stephens as manager of the K&A, is here on an acting manager basis. CRT is recruiting new permanent managers for the K&A and two other waterways....
View ArticleK&A Users Forum, 27th November, Devizes
The next Kennet and Avon Canal Users Forum (formerly the User Group Meeting) will take place this Thursday 27th November 2014 at the Corn Exchange, Market Place, Devizes SN10 1HS (beside the Bear...
View ArticleNo more “neighbourhoods” after 30th April
CRT has confirmed that the unworkable system of designating the western K&A into “neighbourhoods” is to end tomorrow. However in a typically contradictory move CRT has stated that the Visitor...
View ArticleMark Stephens wins K&A Trust John Gould award
Yesterday the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust presented former K&A manager Mark Stephens with the Trust’s John Gould Award for 2014. The award is presented to a person or group who has “undertaken...
View ArticleEntire CRT Devizes office facing redundancy threat
Following CRT’s announcement on 6th November 2018 of up to 240 redundancies across its middle management roles, we can reveal that all the staff in the CRT Devizes office are facing possible...
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