On Saturday 26th March 2022, several hundred boaters and supporters converged on the Canal & River Trust (CRT) offices in Little Venice to protest against the imposition of new ‘no mooring’ areas on the River Lea in East London and CRT’s proposals for more paid-for visitor moorings on the towpath. CRT has imposed ‘no mooring’ […]
All members invited to NBTA Committee phone/Zoom meeting 3rd April
All NBTA members are invited to the NBTA Committee meeting which will be held by telephone and by Zoom on Sunday 3rd April 2022 at 2pm to 4pm. Members are invited to attend committee meetings and to take part in running the NBTA and deciding its next actions and priorities. If you have anything you […]
CRT appoints second welfare officer
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has appointed a second Welfare Officer, Michelle Simmonds,who is based in the North of England. She can be contacted via michelle.simmonds@canalrivertrust.org.uk. Sean Williams, who was appointed in November 2014 to the then new post of Welfare Officer, will continue to handle existing welfare cases and provide cover for the welfare […]
Environment Act application of Smoke Control Areas to boats will not come into force until May 2022
The NBTA is lobbying DEFRA to provide guidance to local authorities on how to avoid injustice to Bargee Travellers in the application of Smoke Control Areas to boats. We have received a response from DEFRA, who have informed us that the legislation will not come into force until May 2022. The NBTA has put detailed […]
EA cancelled Thames enforcement contract due to underestimating its value
More information has been released by the Environment Agency (EA) about the reasons it terminated the contract with car parking company District Enforcement (DE) to enforce time limits on the EA’s own visitor moorings on the River Thames. Following its termination of the contract on 30th July 2021, the EA carried out an internal review […]
No more monetisation of London’s waterways!
On 21st December 2021, just before Christmas, Canal & River Trust (CRT) sneaked out a further consultation regarding proposals for even more mooring restrictions in London, including paid-for bookable short term moorings of less than 14 days, and further areas of restrictions on triple mooring and narrowboat to widebeam mooring. If they are put into […]
Don’t Let CRT Spread More Lies! Leafleting the Public at CRT’s Event in London
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 […]
MARCH ON CRT OFFICES!
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 […]
Template Complaint letter about ‘safety’ zones enforcement
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, […]
Resistance to restrictions in full swing
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 […]