This survey differs from CRT’s survey as we wish to see what improvements can be made on the waterways, specifically for boaters without a home mooring. This survey may be completed by anyone who is using, has used or is intending to use the following waterways for navigation: Limehouse Cut, Hertford Union Canal, Lee Navigation, […]
The 2016 General Meeting of the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) will take place on Saturday 19th November 2016 at 11am to 6pm at the Friends Meeting House, 28 Regent Place, Rugby, CV21 2PN. All members are welcome.
NBTA report back: CRT Annual Public Meeting 2016 Six members of the NBTA attended the 2016 CRT Annual Public Meeting in Birmingham on 22nd September. The meeting, including lunch, started at 10.30 and was scheduled to end at 1.00. However, formal questions and discussion were cut short by Chair of Trustees Allan Leighton at about […]
Canal and River Trust National (CRT) User’ Forum – Birmingham 7th September 2016 Attended by Mike Doherty National Bargee Traveller Association (London Branch) (NBTA(L) on behalf of the NBTA. Report of Forum concentrating on agenda items (3) Enforcement Update and (5) London Mooring Strategy and related questions and answers. The other presentations were extremely interesting […]
On 14th September 2016 Canal & River Trust (CRT), together with police, bailiffs and a CRT enforcement officer, seized a boat without a home mooring that was a vulnerable woman’s home while she was asleep inside it. The woman, who suffers from epilepsy, was later rushed to hospital in an ambulance as the stress of […]
Since 2009, the NBTA has been lobbying the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for the inclusion of Bargee Travellers in the statutory requirement of local authorities to assess the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers.
The NBTA is holding a Volunteer Caseworker Training Session on Sunday 11th September 2016 from 11am to 5pm at Bradford on Avon Youth and Community Centre, Kennet Gardens, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1LE. Lunch will be provided. Please book a place: see below. The training session will be followed by the first meeting of the […]
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is one of the few protections that boat dwellers have against eviction. The vote to leave the European Union (EU) in the referendum on 23rd June makes it more likely that the UK will seek to withdraw from the Convention. It is vitally important that boat dwellers take […]
All NBTA members are invited to the next NBTA Committee meeting on Sunday 10th July 2016 at 2pm to 5pm in the Map Room, Cherry Red’s Cafe Bar, 88-92 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BN (near New St station).
The Canal & River Trust (CRT) moorings strategy for London announced on 29th April 2016 will be used as a template for the rest of the waterway system.