List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom
This List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom is a list of links to any navigation authority in the United Kingdom, relating to any navigable waterway, aqueduct, canal, navigation, river or port.
These include:
- narrow canals, broad canals, or ship canals
- rivers which have been made navigable
- the Broads
- the navigable drains of The Fens.
Examples of navigation authorities
The "Big Three"
- British Waterways – a public corporation and commercial operator, subject to objectives laid down by the government, and statutory obligations and powers.[1]
- Environment Agency – environmental regulatory body, manages its waterways as part of its water management obligations.[2]
- Broads Authority – manages its waterspace as part of the National Park Family. This is because no other national park has a navigation running through it and the "Sandford Principle" of conservation only would not be feasible.[3]
Other authorities
Navigation authorities in the UK
- Associated British Ports - ABP Humber[4]
- Avon Navigation Trust (Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury)[5]
- Basingstoke Canal Authority[6]
- Bridgewater Canal - Manchester Ship Canal Company in conjunction with the Bridgewater Canal Trust [7]
- Bristol Harbour Authority
- British Waterways - supported by grant-in-aid from Government
- Broads Authority - a national park authority
- Cambridgeshire Lodes
- Cardiff Harbour Authority
- Chesterfield Canal Partnership
- City of York Council
- Company of Proprietors of the Chelmer & Blackwater navigation
- Company of Proprietors of the Neath Canal Navigation
- Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation
- Conservators of the River Cam [8]
- Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority - a Trust Port, Dartmouth [9]
- Devon County Council
- Driffield Navigation Trust [10]
- Droitwich Canals Trust
- Environment Agency - supported by grant-in-aid from Government
- Essex Waterways Ltd, a subsidiary of the Inland Waterways Association
- Exe Estuary Navigation Authority based at Exeter
- Exeter City Council
- Gloucester Harbour Trustees - a Trust Port
- Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust
- Hull City Council
- Inland Waterways Association subsidiary Essex Waterways Ltd
- Ipswich & Stowmarket Navigation - River Gipping Trust
- River Ivel - Environment Agency and riparian landowners
- Lake District National Park Authority
- Lancaster Canal's Northern Reaches - various ownerships
- Lapal Canal - various ownerships
- Little Ouse Navigation - Environment Agency / riparian landowners
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority
- Manchester Ship Canal Company [11]
- Medway Ports [12]
- Middle Level Commissioners [13]
- Neath Canal Navigation, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
- Port of Hull and the River Hull, Associated British Ports [14]
- Port of London Authority [15]
- River Dee, Wales - Environment Agency has harbour authority responsibilities downstream
- River Glen, Environment Agency
- River Great Ouse, Environment Agency
- River Hamble Harbour Office [16]
- River Idle, Environment Agency
- River Medway - Non-tidal: Environment Agency; Tidal: Medway Ports
- River Severn, Avon and Wiltshire: Bristol Haven Conservancy
- River Severn, Gloucestershire/Herefordshire: Gloucester Harbour Trustees [17]
- River Tyne - Tidal: Port of Tyne Authority; non-tidal: various
- Scottish waterways - managed by the Scottish Executive and British Waterways Scotland (BWS)
- Sedgemoor District Council - as Harbour Authority for the Port of Bridgwater and the River Parrett[18]
- Sleaford Navigation [19]
- Ulster Canal - various, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
- The Waterways Trust
- The Wey & Arun Canal Trust, Wey & Arun Junction Canal
- Wey and Godalming Navigations, National Trust [20]
- Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
- River Witham - Witham Fourth District Drainage Board [21]
See also
Waterways
Rivers
Canals
Seaports
Other
References
External links