Houseboaters to ballot for action against license fee hike
Members of the National Bargee Traveller Association (NBTA) are gearing up to take on the Canal and River Trust (CRT) over what they say is a sham consultation aimed at imposing punitive fees on people who lack a home mooring.

Boaters are w
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/25/houseboaters-to-ballot-for-action-against-license-fee-hike/
#Activism #CanalAndRiverTrust #discrimination #Housing #NationalBargeeTravellersAssociation

Except if you're desperately ill, old, broke, having a crisis, suffering from poor mental health etc, etc. Heck, even if you just want to cruise your boat in a normal way. It always seems to me that there is a long-standing cultural problem at Waterways management, a scarcely concealed hostility to boats and boaters that set in some time in the 1950s, and has never ended.

#canal #narrowboat #boat #CRT #CanalAndRiverTrust

New vlog day 🥳
Have a break from the cold and ice 🧊 by joining us on our summer cruise from the historic canal village of Braunston as we make The Turn...

https://youtu.be/pHdeoyvLyZg

#Canal #cruising #narrowboat #narrowboatvloggers #braunston #summersun #turn #canalandrivertrust #lifeisbetterbywater

Not a usual canal boat, but on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal we see all sorts. The lovely MY Mascotte this morning. #CanalandRiverTrust

It would have been very different in its industrial heyday; but nowadays there are few things more beautiful than a canal on a sunny winter’s day.
#PoyntonMarinaCheshire. #MacclesfieldCanal. #CanalAndRiverTrust

Boat dwellers protest new waterways “Safety Zones” proposal aimed at gentrification of waterways
Last Saturday, Broxbourne’s Canal in Hertfordshire was filled with a flotilla of boats, all protesting against Canal and River Trust’s (CRT) absurd and falsely named new
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/20/boat-dwellers-protest-new-waterways-safety-zones-proposal-aimed-at-gentrification-of-waterways/
#CanalandRiverTrust #gentrification #London #NationalBargeeTravellersAssociation #NBTA