NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOAT OWNERSNew bookable visitor mooring site at Rembrandt Gardens in Little Venice
The New Year sees CRT launch a new bookable visitor mooring site at Rembrandt Gardens in Little Venice, following positive feedback received during consultation on the Paddington Basin and Little Venice pool mooring proposals earlier this year.
‘Disastrous’ EA Report
Since 2008, the Environment Agency (EA) has been toying with the concept of removing River Thames residential lock and weir keepers with ‘runners’. The justification is that the EA thinks it can save lots of money by letting out the cottages. After much to-ing and fro-ing, with almost unanimous objection from users, a study group […]
Meeting between the National Boating Associations and CRT.
Posted below are the notes of a meeting held at Milton Keynes on 3 November between the National Boating Associations and CRT. It has taken a month to get these minutes out because there are some fundamental differences between the views of some of the associations. NABO agreed that these should be published on the […]
December Meeting of the National Inland Navigation Forum (NINF)
This meeting was held at the St Pancras Cruising Club, London, on Saturday 29th November, and attended by representatives of BMF, IWA, RBOA, AWCC, GOBA, HNBC and NABO.
CRT winter stopages 2014 -15
Don't forget that CRT have details of the stoppage programme on their web site here. There is map showing lots of detail. You needed to select 'Notices and Stoppages' in the options box to the right (and unselect anything that you don't want. Then zoom to your area. Details of closures are shown in red […]
NABO AGM on SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
TO BE HELD AT STAFFORD BOAT CLUB MAPLEWOOD, WILDWOOD, STAFFORD ST17 4SG AT 1030 AM SPEAKERS DEAN DAVIES – INTERIM HEAD OF CRT’S CUSTOMER SERVICES "MY FIRST SIX MONTHS" STEPHANIE HORTON – MD RIVER CANAL RESCUE "INTERESTING CALL OUTS AND MOST COMMON PROBLEMS" RCR INTRODUCTORY AND RENEWAL DISCOUNT FOR NABO MEMBERS ALL WELCOME MORE DETAILS […]
NABO Responds to CRT’s Auction of Towpath Moorings Consultation
The National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) discussed this at the recent meeting of NABO Council and reviewed earlier submissions . The overwhelming answer to the question "Has anything changed since we previously responded to British Waterways on their proposal to auction long term moorings" was NO!
NABO Responds to Water Resources Strategy Consultation
NABO wishes to congratulate CRT on both the approach to, and contents of, this very fine and pioneering strategy-development exercise. The process of consulting the prime users of the waterways is exemplary and the proposals made are well-supported by evidence-based analysis and the use of best practice engineering techniques.
Sonia Rolt and her love affair with the canals
The waterways community is very sad to learn of the death of Sonia Rolt, a truly amazing person who gave so much of her life to our waterways and has left a wonderful legacy. We are grateful to CRT for the following:
Debbie joins Dean in CRT’s Customer Services Team.
We are delighted to learn that Debbie Lumb, previously Head of Museums and Attractions and another highly respected ex- waterway manager (for the North West), has joined the newly-formed CRT Customer Service Team, working for Dean Davies as the Customer Service Project Manager.
