NABO pleased with changes to EA’s proposals on boat registration charges
The Environment Agency has today published its final decisions on boat registration charges on its waterways for the next 3 years: These have resulted from the 8 week consultation launched in July relating to its initial proposals. Following feedback from boater representative organisations (including NABO) and individual boaters regarding the changes which included a proposed […]
Thames Navigation Users Forum October Meeting
On Thursday 14 October Mike Rodd tried to attend a “Teams” meeting of TNUF. Unfortunately he had to attend via phone only as there was poor internet access from where he was moored. However, Teams dropped out several times and he was placed on unmute and the function to reverse this would not work but […]
Independent Survey of Thames Boaters
Led by the Thames Motor Boaters Association (TMBA) and supported by all the organisations representing powered craft which use the non-Tidal Thames (including NABO) we are undertaking a survey of the views of our members about their experiences when using the Thames over the past year. We urge all who both moor on the Thames or […]
Response to Thames Moorings Management Proposed Signage
NABO joined with DBA (The Barge Association) and RBOA (The Residential Boat Owners Association) in the following submission to EA in response to the request for comment on the proposed signage to appear at EA’s Thames short term mooring sites. “Thank you for a last minute opportunity to comment on the intended signage and the […]
National Navigation Users Forum 6 October 2020
This online meeting of NNUF proved to be somewhat difficult as only a few of the attendees were able to make full use of the available video conference tools. Most attendees were limited to a phone-in link with only a few of the 30+ attendees being able to sign into the full conference facilities. (I […]
Letter to EA: Lifting restrictions to recreational powered craft boating on the Thames
Further to our earlier email we now write with our thoughts regarding how best to commence lifting restrictions to recreational powered craft boating on the Thames.
Report on meeting of Thames Navigation Users Forum (TNUF) March 2020
On Tuesday 3rd March 2020 I represented NABO at the above Forum which brings together representatives of a wide cross section of users of the Thames, including the 8 River User Groups (the RUGs) and many other representative groups, with relevant EA personnel. Chaired by the Thames Director, Julia Simpson, the very long meeting was […]
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 […]
Brief Notes on EA’s National Navigation Users Forum: 12th June 2019
Held in London, this meeting was well-attended and proved to be most intriguing. Chaired by Robert Gould, a member of the EA Board, the main purpose was to provide an update on the significant changes taking place within EA in terms of support for their navigational responsibilities. The underlying driving factor was the Government’s decision […]
