Cambridge City Council is preparing to enact a Smoke Control Order that could include moored boats for the first time. The Council is consulting on whether moored boats should be included in a new Smoke Control Order. This could fine boaters up to £300 for producing smoke from a chimney and/or burning wood in a […]
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Government consultation on extending the Warm Home Discount to boats and caravans, please respond by Monday 24th March 2025
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is consulting on extending the Warm Home Discount in winter 2025-2026 to all people who are on means-tested benefits, including those with no direct relationship with an energy supplier such as people living on boats. At present the Government is only considering extending this to boaters on […]
Boaters’ Big Bash! 14th June 2025
Boaters’ Big Bash! Our community is under a flurry of attacks, from the chargeable moorings; charging boaters without a home mooring differently from boaters with moorings for the same licence; to CRT’s plans to try to change the law that protects us. More than ever, our community needs to come together to show a united […]
Smoke control order consultations in Camden and Cambridge, deadline 20th March for Camden and 20th April for Cambridge
London Borough of Camden and Cambridge City Council are both preparing to enact a Smoke Control Order that will include moored boats for the first time. The Smoke Control Orders could fine people up to £300 for producing smoke from a chimney and/or burning wood in a non-Defra approved stove. Don’t let the council fine […]
NBTA publishes guidance for completing the CRT Licence Review Commission survey
Here we publish guidance from the NBTA for completing the CRT Licence Review Commission survey. You can also download it as a Word document here NBTA_Guidance_for_filling_in_CRT_Licence_Review_commission_surveyV3_Final NBTA encourages you to complete the survey but recommends that you engage with it cautiously. CRT has initiated this Licence Review by falsely representing itinerant boaters and licensing legislation. […]
CRT publishes licence review survey – how you can help NBTA to mitigate its damaging impacts
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has published its survey about the Licence Review today on its website. If you would like to help the NBTA form suggested answers to try to mitigate the damaging impacts of the survey on the community of boat dwellers without a permanent mooring, please join our NBTA Licence Review organising […]
Morco LPG water heater safety ‘do not use’ warning
The Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) has issued a warning not to use Morco Primo 6 (MP6), Primo 11 (MP11), EUP6 and EUP11 LPG open-flued water heaters, sold between 2018 and 2023. There is a danger that these water heaters can potentially leak unburnt gas that could cause fires or explosions. Boaters are warned to stop […]
Public Inquiry to look at ‘power grab’ sought by Port of London Authority
Since 1909, the River Thames downstream of Teddington has been controlled by the Port of London Authority (PLA), an opaque organisation with vast powers but very little accountability. The PLA is now pushing to increase its powers further by means of a little-known legislative device called a Harbour Revision Order (HRO). This allows the PLA […]
Elmbridge Council’s anti-mooring PSPO defeated in court – for now
Elmbridge Borough Council’s planned Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to fine and criminalise anyone mooring for more than 24 hours on land the Council owns on the Thames in its borough has been defeated in the High Court, for now.
No fire without smoke
Local authorities across the country are being pushed to take measures to reduce air pollution, in particular the particulates emitted through burning of various fuels. One measure being considered in places is the extension of Smoke Control Areas to cover waterways, using powers granted to local authorities by the Environment Act 2021 to extend Smoke […]