CRT consultation on changes to Liverpool Link 2015 season
CRT is considering changing the way that they manage the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Hancock’s Swing Bridge to Stanley Locks. Unfortunately NABO was not formally advised about this, and indeed it does not appear on CRT’s website, but having discovered it was being undertaken, we would like to make a submission. CRT has extended […]
CRT consultation on the design of safety fences
Marple Aqueduct, on the Peak Forest Canal, is undergoing over half a million pounds worth of repair, conservation and access improvement work as part of the Heritage Lottery funded Revealing Oldknow’s Legacy project. The anticipated increase in visitor numbers following the improvements has led to a safety review of the Aqueduct that concluded additional measures […]
Restoring back ups to Joomla
Back ups for the web site There are three ways for back up. Firstly there is a system on the SiteGround admin system. This is a manual backup that I do from time to time. The files are stored on the SiteGround system and cannot be accessed. If there is a need to restore the […]
New 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.
Is the Mersey Ferry Bona Fide Navigating?
Is the Mersey Ferry an example of 'bona fide used for navigation'? Judge Halbert in a November 2013 CRT judgment recently made public, thinks it is. He said in the judgment: To take an extreme example, in its heyday, the Mersey Ferry operated continuously to and fro over the same stretch of water which is […]
‘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 […]
NE Partnership Annual Meeting
North East Partnership – Annual Public Meeting, CRT Offices, Fearns Wharf, Leeds 27th November 2014 This was the second Annual Meeting of the NE Partnership, introduced jointly by the NE Manager – Jon Horsefal, and the Partnership Chairman, Mark Penny.
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.
K&A Mooring Trial
K&A Mooring Trial Geoffrey Rogerson provides an update Earlier this year the K&A Canal Partnership, after various consultations and deliberations, came up with the K&A voluntary Mooring Trial. The object was to encourage the movement of boats and the gist of it was to divide the canal between Bath and Devizes into neighbourhoods. The […]
