The Boats are Homes petition has been handed in to Prime Minister David Cameron and while we wait for the Government’s response, the NBTA invites people to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds and its Milton Keynes HQ at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 10th May 2016.
Report of meeting between NBTA and CRT Legal Team
The NBTA met with CRT’s Legal Department and Head of Boating yesterday, 21st April 2016. Present from CRT were Jackie Lewis, Head of the Legal Department; Tom Deards of the Legal Team; Mike Grimes, Head of Boating and Matthew Symonds, Relationship, Policy and Strategy Manager. CRT conceded very little. They are sticking to their interpretation of what is […]
Hundreds on Boats are Homes march
On 16th April, nearly 300 boat dwellers marched to Downing Street to hand in a petition against the Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) policy that threatens Bargee Travellers with restricted-duration licences and even eviction.
All NBTA members invited to committee meeting, 10th April, London
All NBTA members are invited to the next NBTA Committee meeting which will be on Sunday 10th April at 2pm-5pm at Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel, London.
CRT intensifies its attack on Bargee Travellers
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.