Disabled boaters forum report – information about services
We see the minutes of the forum meeting held on Wednesday 22nd December. These include the first update we have seen on the recent facilities consultation. This says: Based on these results, we are proposing to include water, waste and recycling, Elsan andpump-out in the minimum provision. There will be a maximum 5-hour cruising time […]
What is the future for the Weaver offices and yards at Northwich?
CRT own Navigation Yard in Northwich and have now offered it for sale. The site has been the center for the management and maintenance of the Weaver navigation since the river was developed for coastal craft. Prior to Covid, CRT used the offices as part of the NW region. NABO members have attended many meetings […]
Wales and the South West
Wales and the South West On 20th October, I attended the CRT Wales User Forum, with six other users and three CRT folk, but unfortunately the Regional Director, Mark Evans, was down with another dose of Covid! Most of the meeting was taken up with long presentations about all the wonderful things CRT and others […]
Welfare report
Welfare report Ken Hylins summarises his work for NABO over the last year. This year has been a busy one for me: I have been contacted for help on several occasions, be it for advice or to actually get involved to resolve boaters’ issues and concerns. There has been a common theme to all of […]
So it’s goodbye from me and …..
So it’s goodbye from me and ….. After 12 years Peter Fellows hands on the baton of editorship. Another varied set of articles to end the year, with Helen Hutt describing her trip to the Medway on the 75-year old paddle steamer, Waverley, and my article on the unbelievable attitude of a local council towards […]
Meeting of the APPGW
Meeting of the APPGW Anne Husar listened in to a presentation to MPs from Richard Parry. A few observations of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Waterways’ meeting in October: there were no MPs taking part in the Zoom meeting, apart from the Chair, Michael Fabricant. One participant, Sir Robert Atkins, therefore regarded the whole […]
A busy year for the Association and an uncertain future for the waterways.
Annual Report 2022 A busy year for the Association and an uncertain future for the waterways. Mike Rodd addresses the AGM. There is a vital role for NABO in these times, when the continuing state funding of both CRT and the EA is coming up for review – right in the midst of a totally […]
More problems due to HS2
More problems due to HS2 The HS2 (Crewe – Manchester) Bill for Phase 2b West received a second House of Commons reading in June and was referred to an HS2 Select Committee to hear petitions from those directly and specially affected. The Bill affects the Middlewich Branch and the Trent & Mersey canal. The plans […]
Chair’s column Sept 22
A critical time for the canals Mike Rodd is concerned about the very existence of some of our waterways. This is THE most critical time – not only for the future of the present canal operators, the Canal and River Trust – but indeed for the whole future of our amazing waterways. I was shaken […]
CRT announce plan to reopen northern canals as water becomes available
CRT have made this annoucment Following 2022’s drought, which forced the closure to navigation of several canals in the north of the country, the Canal & River Trust is planning ‘windows’ of canal reopening over the coming weeks. In most instances this will allow boating over the October half term and up to the start […]
