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Post by kris on Apr 30, 2019 17:20:02 GMT
I've heard today that the facilities in Loughborough basin have been closed and removed. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If so its getting ridiculous how many have been closed and removed recently. It's looking like this is carts new plan in the ongoing discouragement of boaters living on their boats on the cut.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 17:37:04 GMT
I've heard today that the facilities in Loughborough basin have been closed and removed. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If so its getting ridiculous how many have been closed and removed recently. It's looking like this is carts new plan in the ongoing discouragement of boaters living on their boats on the cut. It'll all end up in the canal. CRT think people won't, but if push comes to shove............
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Post by Trina on Apr 30, 2019 18:41:42 GMT
Push comes to shove=chronic constipation...😖
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Post by JohnV on Apr 30, 2019 18:46:53 GMT
well I don't like it ..... but you know what I mean
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 30, 2019 18:57:30 GMT
Good that Kris is keeping tabs on all this, our ear to the ground as it were. But we don't know if the facilities at Loughborough have been closed - and temporarily or what? Angry boaters could storm CRT Towers in Milton Keynes and have a sit in, in protest, as in sitting on all their bogs so that CRT staff have to nip out to use the local pub's loos. "Are you going to be in there long?" "I'll be out when the facilities in Loughborough are re-opened, thanks!"
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Post by kris on Apr 30, 2019 19:19:22 GMT
Foxy you may ridicule it, but this is a serious issue for people who live on their boats. The facilities in the basin at Loughborough was another one of the deals done with a property developer where they get planning permission for their development(posh flats) if they put boaters facilities in it somewhere. Then low and behold at sometime in the future the facilities are closed and cart do nothing about it. I've seen the same thing happen in granary wharf in Leeds, did you know foxy that there are supposed to be some nice new facilities in the base of the big round building? Well you would have had to be quick to use them as they where shut not long after the building was opened and never reopened, they have now been converted into an exspensive bar.
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Post by patty on Apr 30, 2019 19:52:28 GMT
Push comes to shove=chronic constipation...😖 I once had to make a patient a large jugful of sennapod tea.......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 19:57:56 GMT
Foxy you may ridicule it, but this is a serious issue for people who live on their boats. The facilities in the basin at Loughborough was another one of the deals done with a property developer where they get planning permission for their development(posh flats) if they put boaters facilities in it somewhere. Then low and behold at sometime in the future the facilities are closed and cart do nothing about it. I've seen the same thing happen in granary wharf in Leeds, did you know foxy that there are supposed to be some nice new facilities in the base of the big round building? Well you would have had to be quick to use them as they where shut not long after the building was opened and never reopened, they have now been converted into an exspensive bar. Its a pretty serious issue for pleasure boaters who use shit suitcases too. I'm an example as when we go on holiday on the inspection launch which has a PP265 suitcase it needs emptying about every two days with 4 of us on board. The elsan points are usually pretty well arranged for cruising boats so if one is not working or removed you get the situation jenlyn is talking about. Not many people would want to empty shit in the cut or the bushes by choice but it is likely to happen if services are removed. Its obvious.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 30, 2019 20:07:32 GMT
I'm sure I heard somewhere that there have been issues with homeless people sleeping in this toilet block.
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Post by naughtyfox on May 1, 2019 4:56:44 GMT
Foxy you may ridicule it, but this is a serious issue for people who live on their boats. Not ridiculing it. Developers and property speculators and 'venture capitalists' and corrupt council officials will get away with their sleight of hand up to the point where they are stopped - and then try it on some more. They have the money to pay a few bully boys to 'disrupt' those who stand in their way, and I can't see a few random boaters scaring them very much. Build poor-quality flats, get buyers and renters, instant profit from the buyers and milk those renters (often via the government's Social Security and Unemployment Benefit) for the rest of their lives. How many Grade I / II historical buildings "accidentally catch fire" when they get in the way of 'developers'? What is the answer? Keeping tabs on things for starters. I've been reading Private Eye for years, they do an excellent job at informing who's getting up to what. I'd suggest people here take out a subscription to that magazine if they want their 'finger on the pulse'. Let's talk about the Loughborough facilities closing (allegedly) - apart from you reporting on this, what else is there? Could affect us too, as we're going through 'Luff'bro' this Summer. Loughborough Basin in 2017
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Post by patty on May 1, 2019 5:38:29 GMT
I once had to make a patient a large jugful of sennapod tea....... When the district nurse attempts to show you how to push a 'relaxative' up your wife's bum but decides there is a need to source a commode first - you know things are getting towards rock bottom... That is bad...with mum we were lucky the red cross provided so much stuff and before she left hospital the nurses in the ward ensured I went home after every visit with items i would need. She only had a month at home an post RIP I donated an awful lot to the district nurses to help someone else cope. I guess being a nurse helped.
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Post by patty on May 1, 2019 5:39:45 GMT
I'm sure I heard somewhere that there have been issues with homeless people sleeping in this toilet block. I guess anywhere left accessible where there are homeless could see this happening.
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Post by Trina on May 1, 2019 6:43:58 GMT
It happened in Brum at Salvage Turn & Cambrian Wharf facilities.The folk seem to have gone back to kipping under the bridges now.
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Post by JohnV on May 1, 2019 6:53:10 GMT
This is something that does worry me somewhat. The showers and their maintenance has been gradually going down hill for some time. I certainly noticed it when I first started touring round on Shapfell. (as I have mentioned before, fitting a shower of any reasonable sort in a 25 foot narrowbeam is ....... challenging) as a result I use the showers when they are available, being a cheapskate I object to paying for a night in a marina so I can use their facilities.
Now after a gap of nearly 6 years I am concerned at what conditions I am going to find when I start moving Shapfell again.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2019 7:00:13 GMT
To be honest showers are a rarity away from the L&L, although you do encounter them occasionally.
But elsans and skips are essential, and removal of these facilities is a very serious matter.
Last time we visited Aylesbury there was a couple living in the service block. They'd set up camp beds, and had electrical equipment plugged in.
I used the elsan and left them in peace, just thankfull for my good fortune in life.
Rog
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