Canal Angels has just received news of a couple who are to
lobby parliament for a change in law after an unscrupulous boatyard operator rendered them homeless and breached the
Human Rights Act, they claim. After receiving sub-standard work to their narrowboat home, the couple tested the works conducted by
JP Marine UK Ltd at
Taylors Boatyard dry dock in
Chester, which was verfiried as having
"significant defects" by independent marine surveyors
Inspection Consultants Ltd (Incon). They are now preparing to lobby parliament for a change in the law which fails to recognise their live-aboard narrowboat as a dwelling home affording them the same rights as bricks and mortar home owners and caravan owner-occupiers. A local MP is working with the couple in their plight to recover their home, and bring charges of alleged criminal damage against Taylors Boatyard operator JP Marine UK Ltd after they denied the couple access to their home and placed it in a state of peril. This was after the couple had paid the boatyard £6,000 for "works". In a statement by the couple:
"the consequences of the actions of Taylors Boatyard have far reaching consequences for the operator, as well as serious ramifications for all those who presently live on board a watercraft, be it a narrowboat, dutch barge or GRP cruiser. Boatyard operators in the UK have the power to take possession of your home without consent, evict you, impound it and deny access to all possessions...even your clothes, something even court appointed bailiffs cannot do. All this happened as the police stood by and watched, as it would appear they have no law to act upon and are powerless to prevent it....housing can affect a person's life, health and life chances, which is why the right to respect for a person's home is in the Human Rights Act ".
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Welds up to five rows wide riddled with defects |
According to Peter James Askey of JP Marine UK Ltd "steel narrowboats are not fabricated to the standards of coded welders". Well his certainly aren't. Full details soon.
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| Visible Holes in the botched welding which were painted over |
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| Yvette Askey JP Marine UK Ltd |
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| Peter James Askey- Director JP Marine UK Ltd refutes the findings of tests carried out by Incon claiming "steel narrowboats are not fabricated to the standards of coded welders" |
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