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  • Boat dwellers ‘denied basic rights’ because law fails to recognise floating homes

    Boat dwellers ‘denied basic rights’ because law fails to recognise floating homes

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    June 30, 2026

    THOUSANDS of people living on Britain’s waterways are being denied basic rights because the law has failed to recognise their homes, said Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville. Writing on The Parliament Politics website, she warned that boat dwellers occupy a “strange limbo”, lacking the protections of conventional housing despite forming a long-established community. She is…

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