For members on Canal & River Trust (CRT) waterways, CRT is holding its Annual Public Meeting online on Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 12 noon. You can submit questions to CRT Chair David Orr and Chief Executive Richard Parry by emailing annualpublicmeeting@canalrivertrust.org.uk See https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/annual-report-and-accounts/annual-public-meeting-2023# to take part in the meeting.
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Stop Licence Discrimination Campaign News
Canal & River Trust (CRT), which manages most of the inland waterways in England and Wales, is marginalising travelling boat dwellers by planning to impose a ‘surcharge’ on boaters for not having a home mooring. CRT is trying to destroy our nomadic way of life. Let’s come together to oppose this surcharge on our community! […]
What to do if you are still excluded from the Energy Bills Support Scheme
Many people remain excluded from the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS), despite the grant being promised to every household in the UK. You may still be excluded from the £400 EBSS Alternative Funding and £200 EBSS Alternative Fuels Payment if you:
Elmbridge Council to consult for a third time on anti-mooring PSPO
Earlier this year, Elmbridge Borough Council ran a consultation about bringing in a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to target so-called “unauthorised” mooring, barbecues, littering and night fishing on Council land along the River Thames. The outcome of the Green Spaces PSPO consultation was recently announced. Elmbridge has decided to bring in a PSPO that […]
Itinerant boat dwellers on CRT waters to get Energy Bills Support – deadline extended to Mon 28th Aug
UPDATE – The deadline to make sure your details are correct with CRT has been extended to Monday 28th August! After great efforts of NBTA and others campaigning for the energy grant, many itinerant boat dwellers on Canal & River Trust (CRT) waterways can now get £600 each! Amazing news for itinerant boaters ! The […]
Environment Agency consults on unregistered boat removal procedure 13 years after undertaking not to use powers without consultation: please give NBTA your views
In 2010, before the Environment Agency (EA) Inland Waterways Order 2010 became law, the NBTA made a legal challenge regarding the proposed power in Article 16 of the Order to remove boats if they are used as homes. In response to this, the EA made an Undertaking not to remove an unregistered residential vessel without […]
Select Committee seeks testimony from people excluded from Energy Bills Support Scheme – send your story to Parliament by 25th August!
The Energy Security and Net Zero (ESNZ) Parliamentary Committee is to carry out an inquiry into Preparing for the Winter, including the continued exclusion of boat dwellers and other itinerant or off-grid households from the Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS). The Committee will hear verbal and written evidence in September 2023. You can send […]
NBTA plans ballot on resistance to CRT licence changes
As boaters on Canal & River Trust (CRT) waterways anxiously await an update on CRT’s new licence fee structure (now expected in September or October), the NBTA is gearing up to ballot its members on what actions they are willing to take to oppose any attack on the itinerant liveaboard community.
Birmingham mooring restrictions only slightly less inconvenient after CRT consultation
Many boaters responded to the recent CRT consultation opposing the removal of all 14-day mooring space in Birmingham city centre. CRT now states that all visitor moorings in the central zone will become 4-day moorings, reverting to 14 days in winter (1st November to 31st March). All the pontoons at Cambrian Basin will become long-term […]
Kingston apologises to NBTA for smoke control blunder – order will not apply to boats
Kingston upon Thames Council has apologised to the NBTA after the wording of its Public Notices implied that its new Smoke Control Order would apply to moored boats, and many boaters took the trouble to object to the Order on the grounds that no consultation with boaters or with NBTA had been carried out.