On 10th March 2016 Canal & River Trust (CRT) announced that it was once again clamping down on boat dwellers without permanent moorings on its waterways.
Volunteer Caseworker Training Session and Meeting to set up an NBTA group in Cambridge, Sunday 3rd April 2016
The NBTA is holding a Volunteer Caseworker Training Session and Meeting to set up an NBTA group in Cambridge on Sunday 3rd April 2016 at 11am and 4.15pm at St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Road, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1DH.
Oxford PSPO will not go ahead as planned following legal challenge by boat dwellers
Oxford City Council’s Scrutiny Committee decided last night (7th March 2016) not to take the draft Waterways Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) forward to consultation following intervention by boat dwellers who pointed out that the draft PSPO was beyond the Council’s legal powers to implement because it sought to undermine the lawful rights of boaters […]
Oxford to ‘consult’ on draconian Waterways Public Space Protection Order – please come to Scrutiny Committee tomorrow 7th March, 6.15pm, St Aldate’s Room, Town Hall
Oxford City Council has been secretly developing a Public Space Protection Order which will criminalise mooring and other behaviour on waterways in the city with £1,000 penalties for anyone caught mooring anywhere without the permission of the land owner. The Council is about to put this to ‘consultation’ though certain anti-boater Councillors have been quoted […]
Boats are Homes National Demonstration 16th April 2016
The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is organising a demonstration to demand that Canal & River Trust (CRT):
CRT wastes nearly half a million on lawyers’ fees in a year
According to a recent Freedom of Information response from Canal & River Trust (CRT), the charity spent £434,341 in the year to November 2015 on fees to its solicitors Shoosmiths.
Stop the reduction in mooring stay times on the Grand Union!
Recently Canal & River Trust (CRT) announced a proposed change to visitor mooring times or the introduction of overstaying fines in three locations on the southern Grand Union canal: Berkhamsted, Braunston and Marsworth. A fourth location, Batchworth, has since been abandoned due to an error in CRT’s information collection. These proposals will limit the stay […]
CRT extends election after restricted licence holders excluded in error
CRT has apologised to the NBTA and extended its Council election for 6 days after the NBTA complained that, contrary to an assurance by CEO Richard Parry in September, boaters without home moorings who had been forced to take a ‘restricted’ 3 or 6 month licence had not been included in the election.
Disabled bargee travellers – know your rights!
The National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) has published an advice briefing for disabled boaters and for boaters who are pregnant or elderly. As a result of campaigning by the NBTA and other groups, Canal & River Trust (CRT) has now adopted a standard procedure for assessing and agreeing adjustments to its enforcement procedure for boaters […]
NBTA North Group Up-and-running
Following a successful meeting in Leeds on 15-11-2015 live-aboard boaters across the north of England decided to set up National Bargee Travellers Association North. Enforcement against boaters without home moorings on CRTs northern waterways has been particularly draconian. Many boaters who attended the meeting commented that they had very little information about what rights they […]