January 2018 - As the planning consultation on bulldozing the Flapper music pub on Birmingham's Cambrian Wharf and replacing it with high rise flats was closing the Canal & River Trust put in a powerful, formal objection to the city council, saying it should not go ahead, Peter Underwood repo
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January 2018 - Senior Canal & River Trust managers are now briefing groups across the business, telling them that Waterways Partnerships will be reconstituted following the transition from ten Waterway Regions to six Waterway Super-Regions and suggesting that the 'new' partnerships will have
January 2018 - What will 2018 bring for boaters on the UK's waterways? We have been taking a look at the trends developing in Milton Keynes Towers and elsewhere and here is what we think you need to be looking out for this year.
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - The Floater will not be offering a news service over Christmas and the New Year. We have better things to do and we hope you do too.
December 2017 - With figures belatedly published for the first four months of C&RT's 2017/18 financial year, trustees have been informed by Chief Executive, Richard Parry, that the trust will fail to meet this years target for recruiting 'Friends'.
December 2017 - Within days of Canal & River Trust admitting that it had, finally, made an official bid to take over the Environment Agency Navigations the Agency itself has made a belated attempt to highlight its investment in its East Anglian waterways, as Peter Underwood reports.
December 2017 - Canal & River Trust has announced yet another half-baked scheme aimed at boaters – this time to 'validate' moorings, as Peter Underwood reports.
December 2017 - At the Kennet & Avon Partnership meeting on Wednesday (7 December), Canal & River Trust announced that Waterways Partnerships are to be dissolved and made no mention of them being reconstituted under the new structure now out for consultation.
December 2017 - Senior Canal & River Trust managers are falling like flies, with controversial North West Waterways manager Chantelle Seaborn the latest to join the exodus from Richard Parry's top team, as Peter Underwood reports.