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, […]
Author: Marcus Trower
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 […]
Stop the ‘Safety Zones’ Protest Picnic
On Sunday 9th May, Boaters from all over London and the River Lee gathered on Walthamstow Marshes to protest against CRT’s proposed ‘Water Safety Zones’ and to plan the next stage of action against them. An estimated 200 people joined across the five hour protest picnic, including many passers-by and local people who expressed sympathy […]
550 Mooring Spaces taken from the River Lee by CRT
On Saturday 17th April, a flotilla of boats and boaters gathered in Broxbourne on the River Lee to protest against CRT’s new mooring restrictions which will see up to 550 mooring spaces lost along the river. The so-called ‘Water Safety Zones’ are being introduced in June by CRT without proper consultation of the stakeholders who […]
NBTA in favour of action which opposes ‘Safety Zones’
The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) opposes Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) plan to cull boats from the River Lea navigation on the Lower Lea and at Broxbourne. We believe the waterways must be shared by everyone and are not for use by one group at the expense of another. As a consequence, NBTA will […]
SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO CRT BOAT CULL SURVEY
Canal River and Trust (CRT) here have rolled out a survey into managing boat numbers on London Waterways. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/london-and-south-east/managing-boats-on-londons-busy-waterways https://wh.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=160260143288 This consultation is obviously framed with a set of leading questions to encourage people to say negative things about our community. So we at NBTA suggest to remedy this the response should be of a […]
STOP THE BOAT CULL!
Canal and River Trust (CRT) have recently announced that it intends once again to target boaters without a home mooring (also known as continuous cruisers) in London and reduce their numbers. Their latest “survey” of waterways stakeholders is introduced with the implication that there are too many of us, and the leading questions in the […]
Update Andrzei anti-eviction campaign
STOP PRESS Andrzei’s boat was seized by Canal & River Trust on 14th May 2019 at Harlesden and craned out. The Andrzei enforcement case is said to be no longer being dealt with by the local enforcement officer and regional enforcement manager. This after Section 7 of the British Waterways act 1983, which lays out […]
Boat dweller threatened with eviction. Urgent help needed
Certified gas engineer and boat dweller, Andrzei, has been given an eviction notice by the Canal and River Trust (CRT) and is under immediate threat of eviction. He is on the boat commonly called ‘the caravan boat’, which is a WW2 landing craft onto which he has skillfully welded and fixed a mobile home. He […]
PADDINGTON PARTY, PROTEST, RALLY, AND FLOTILLA
The waterways have been changing but not always for the best; more places are having ‘no mooring’ or reduced mooring time signs slapped on them. There has been an ever increasing nibbling away of mooring spaces. Yet Canal & River Trust (CRT) has more plans for mooring restrictions, more ‘no mooring’ signs, more business moorings […]