In London, especially in West London, the waterways are lacking in facilities. So to draw attention to this NBTA London is organising an expedition flotilla on Saturday 8th August 2015 to find how many facilities there are on London’s waterways.
Short term licence fee victory for NBTA
Following lobbying by the NBTA, CRT has stated that it will only charge boaters who have been forced to take a 3 or 6 month licence the 12-month fee pro rata instead of the advertised higher relative cost of its shorter licences. This followed a recent meeting with CRT’s new Head of Customer Service when […]
Voting without a residential address
The 2015 general election is less than two months away. If you want to vote, itinerant boat dwellers without a fixed address can register by declaring a local connection. You can download the form below. You can use it to register anywhere in the UK. Electoral Registration Generic NFA The registration process changed in 2014 and […]
Please sign petition – Boats are Homes!
Please sign, share and tweet this petition in support of people affected by CRT’s new policy for boat dwellers without a home mooring. The petition is being relaunched after opponents angry at the petition’s success – it has reached 15,000 signatures – succeeded in temporarily removing it. It is back and it’s going to stay […]
Forthcoming meetings:
Saturday 14th March 2015 – NBTA London campaign meeting, 3pm, Star of Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX. Contact NBTALondon@gmail.com Sunday 15th March 2015 – NBTA meeting and legal briefing, 2pm – 5pm, The Victoria, Birmingham B1 1BN. Leaflets for the Birmingham meeting to download and distribute NBTA Birmingham meeting flyer 15-03-2015 NBTA Birmingham […]
THE CONTINUOUS CRUISING CASE CRT COULDN’T WIN
CRT settled with a boater and kept the outcome confidential in a continuous cruising case last year. The case of CRT v Wingfield (3NG01237) was heard by HHJ Pugsley in Chesterfield County Court on 3rd and 4th March 2014. The resulting court order included a confidentiality clause preventing anyone from disclosing the terms of the […]
STATEMENT ON CRT’S NEW POLICY FOR BOATERS WITHOUT A HOME MOORING
The NBTA opposes Canal & River Trust’s new policy for boaters without a home mooring. Canal & River Trust (CRT) declared on 13th February 2015 that from 1st May this year it will refuse to re-license all boats that “don’t move … far enough or often enough” to meet its Guidance for Boaters without a […]
BOATERS LEGAL BRIEFING, 26TH FEBRUARY, LONDON
After the earlier event in November was oversubscribed, we are running a second legal briefing in a larger venue.on Thursday, 26th February 2015 at 7pm at St Michael and All Angels Church Hall, Lansdowne Drive, London E8 3ER. You can book a free place online here http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-legal-general-ii-tickets-15425159066 or contact secretariat@bargee-traveller.org.uk or 0118 321 4128. Unsure […]
JOIN THE BOATERS BLOC AT THE MARCH FOR HOMES, LONDON, 31st JANUARY
Join the NBTA banner and Boaters Bloc on the March for Homes this Saturday 31st January. The march assembles 12 noon at St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Butts, London SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube/rail) to march to the Mayor of London’s office at City Hall. The NBTA banner and boaters will be at the corner […]
CRT HANDS OFF OUR HOMES! PUBLIC MEETING, 22ND JANUARY 2015, LONDON
The Canal & River Trust (CRT) is on a mission to make the lives of live-aboards without home moorings harder. CRT has been meeting with some boaters’ groups to try to get an agreement to an unlawful definition of “place” and an unlawful minimum distance that continuous cruisers should travel to comply with Section 17 […]