CRT Boat Licence costs for 2020-21
The Canal & River Trust has announced that headline private and business boat licence fees will rise by 2.5% from 1 April 2020. As previously announced, in March 2018, following the Trust’s national boat licence consultation, a number of changes will be made to licence fees over five years. From 1 April 2020, a 2.5% […]
Meeting of Thames Navigation Users Forum (TNUF)
On Tuesday 29th October 2019 I represented NABO at the well-attended meeting of the above Forum which brings together representatives of a wide cross section of users of the Thames, largely through the 8 River User Groups (the RUGs) and representative user groups, together with relevant EA personnel. Chaired by EA’s Thames Waterways Director, Julia […]
EA’s Strategic Review of Navigation Charges Customer Workshop
On Monday 21st October Mike Rodd represented NABO at the first of a series of workshops run by the EA to get input from users before finalising charging proposals for consultation in spring 2020. The aim of the exercise is to simplify the charging, introduce consistency (where possible) across EA’s waterways and (of special interest […]
River Thames Alliance 2019 AGM
This was held yesterday, 10th October 2019, at the Henley River and Rowing Museum. The first issue was the approval of the proposed RTA Annual Report for the previous year. It was felt, however, that this concentrated too much on the problems RTA had been experiencing and failed to highlight some of the positive work […]
Winter moorings
A report by CRT on last year’s sales of winter moorings shows the following numbers of permits sold in each price bracket: Price per metre No sold £6.70 262 £10.30 151 £13.90 150 £16.00 75 £18.00 80 Total 718 The total number of months booked was 2305, raising a total income of £314,149.40.
CRT Annual report
CRT have published their annual report for the period 2018 – 19 The press release summary PDF is here The annual meeting is set for 19 September at Austin Court, Birminham with notice here.
Carbon monoxide latest
The silent killer Carbon monoxide latest It’s not just for exam day, it saves lives says BSS representative David Fletcher The requirement for a CO alarm in all boats with accommodation became a BSS requirement in April. This applies to all boats immediately, even if your examination was as late as March and you will […]
Contacting CRT
– now at weekends too From 14th July, boaters are able to get in touch with the CRT customer service team seven days a week. The team will respond to enquiries from 8am—6pm, Monday to Friday, 9am—5pm on Saturdays, and 10am—4pm on Sundays. You can get in touch with the Trust to report an incident […]
GDPR – one year in
David Fletcher examines your personal data in detail The GDPR was introduced in May 2018. NABO has to comply (as do all organisations that hold ‘personal data’), as we hold information about people for a ‘business or other non-household purpose’. At the June Council meeting, the team took time out to review our current position […]
Access to CRT maps
It is possible to access CRTs maps on mobile devices. These maps contain their information on assets and also show how towpath mowing should take place. To see these, you will need an application called Explorer for ArcGIS. This is on both IOS and Android. Instructions are here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/original/31974-arc-explorer.pdf?v=a78391 CRT set the mowing plans by […]
