Canal and River Trust (CRT) which manages most of inland waterways in England and Wales are marginalising travelling boat dwellers by planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ to boaters for not having a home mooring. CRT are trying to destroy our nomadic way of life. Let’s come together to oppose the surcharge on our community. National […]
CRT have been putting up our licence fees over the last two years and they plan to further increase this over the next five years. Our licences went up 8% in 2022, 9% in 2023, and they now plan to put them up another 6% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – an […]
We need as many people as possible on CRT waterways to fill in the survey to show CRT we will not let them price us off the waterways. We’ve been getting the word out there across the waterways about CRT’s latest survey which tries to pit boater against boater to price many of us out […]
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has produced a consultation survey in which they ask boaters whether people without home moorings should pay higher licence fees than people with home moorings, as well as other leading and divisive questions. CRT planning to increase the boat licence by more than the rate of inflation is abhorrent, especially […]
Boaters’ Spring Fayre Next to the Clapton S Bend in Hackney Ain’t No Party like an S Bend Party! We are proud to announce the Boaters’ Spring Fayre community event on Sunday 14th May 2023 starting at 12 noon in defence and celebration of our way of life. […]
Early in 2021, CRT announced that they would be restricting moorings along 10km of the River Lea, claiming that mooring in these ‘Water Safety Zones’ was unsafe. Join us at the Hackney Protest Picnic on 26th June 2022 to continue our resistance! Meet at 12 noon on Walthamstow Marshes, opposite the Anchor & Hope pub.
On Saturday 19th February at 12pm, NBTA will be counter leafleting CRT’s re-opening of the Hertford union canal in Victoria Park, next to Gunmaker’s gate (E3 5PE). CRT market themselves as a charity that promotes wellbeing. This is an opportunity for us to show the public how damaging and nasty their policies are, and how […]
Come to march on Canal and River Trust’s Little Venice office on Saturday 26th March. Canal and River Trust (CRT) are taking away hundreds of mooring spaces on the River Lea in Hackney and Broxbourne. They are completely ignoring the views of boaters. Early in 2021, CRT announced that they would be restricting moorings along […]
CRT has started enforcing the ‘no mooring’ sites in the ‘safety’ zones. We will take CRT to court. The first step in the that is going through their internal procedures, which start with a complaint. If CRT says they will take action against you because your in a ‘no mooring’ site in a safety zone, […]
Our community’s action is going brilliantly against the unjustified ‘no mooring’ sites of the ‘safety’ zones on the River Lee. Even with the Canal & River Trust (CRT) having quite poor competence in recording boat sighting data, they say that there have been at least 154 boats on 295 occasions since October 2021 moored in the […]