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ure and future of on the overall structu accounts for around boat licensing. which currently is massively tions has been and operations of our total income, A series of opt the feedback Customer services “We are 10-15% o the canals and based on Canal & River Trust director Ian Rogers said: of important in keeping can continue to published BOATERS using in in the first stages boat licences boaters to pay 3% more given by boaters committed to keeping investing the rivers open so the spring waters will have d in the future.” on held during and April 1. use them, now and at a fair price licence fees from groups are consultati for our canals this increase is 2 back into caring Boaters and boating to take part and summer.

According to the trust, of all our Continued on page forecasts income invited benefit inflation the being for with currently on roughly in line its and rivers . stage of a consultati will help to sustain boating customers from boat licences, in the final for next year and expenditure of more “The money we get annual charitable than £150 million. held at Crofton Beam being are days OPEN o Canal near a major & Avon Trust has begun Engines on the Kennet can see the winter its THE Canal & River visitors ld Canal as part of so gh which e, Chesterfie the Marlborou of and on the n action overhaul e in World Canals Conferenc ce programme. Work voted the SCOTTISH Canals’ maintenance programm . These will winter maintenan begun with a new set of last year, has been the scenes. has took place in Invernessat an awards ceremony hosted the work behind od Quarry £200,000 project Novvember 18 and installed at Turnerworestoration best event in Scotland take place on Saturdays Relations. More m and entry is free lock gates being the Institute of Public 10am-3pm will also include als from 25 by the Chartered December 2 from for a near Lock. The works leaders and profession cuttingavailablee in return Sunday Pie Bridge and and than 350 business with refreshments on Canal Trust is of brickwork at Whit & Avo innovative thinking damaged by a vehicle and including nations celebrated donation. The Kennet lotterry grant securing Retford after it was range of disciplines n, lock gates at Shireoaks a edge delivery in a celebrating a heritage improvements to seee page 14. development, regeneratio ensuring they form sustainable tourism climate change and the future of the engines, Forest Bottom Lock, nt, Scottish manageme that d heritage watertight seal.

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Boost for canal trust’s £1 million ap ppeal A £1 MILLION campaign to build a canal tunnel under the Cross-city railway line has raised £400,000 less than a year after its official launch.

Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust’s David Suchet Tunnel Vision appeal was formally launched in January by renowned actor and vice-president of the trust David Suchet.

The trust wants the tunnel built at

the same time as construction of a tunnel for road traffic as an extension to the Southern Bypass.

The news of the ongoing success of the campaign comes after the Department for Transport agreed to allocate £5 million towards the £17.3 million cost of the final phase of the bypass linking Birmingham Road with London Road. Other funding for the bypass project, which

Tunnel checks

TWO Llangollen Canal tunnels recently went under the spotlight for three-yearly inspections.

Canal & River Trust engineers used a boat to travel through the 421m Chirk and 174m Whitehouse tunnels to assess any structural changes and check for leaks, cracks and damaged brickwork. Their observations will then be analysed to decide if any major repairs are needed. The tunnels contain more than a million bricks, with much of the surface sealed in clay to make them waterproof.

is scheduled for completion in 2020, is coming from Staffordshire County Council, Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) with a contribution from a housing developer.

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Charges to rise

BOAT registration charges for Environment Agency waterways will rise for the first time for three years in 2018-19. Charges for any powered boat kept, used or let for hire will increase by 5.7% (Thames), 7.5% (Anglian) and 10% (Upper Medway); unpowered boats (not houseboats) and those registered with British Rowing or British Canoeing, will increase by 7.7% and the Gold Licence will increase by 3.8%. They will apply from January 1 on the Thames and April 1 for all other waterways.

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WORK has started on a £2 250,000 project by the Canal & River Trust to imp prove the water flow to the Peak Forest Canal. Expected E to last 12 weeks, it will involve instaalling new pipes from Black Brook river which w will increase the water flow to the canal. Other wo orks will include rebuilding the 200-year-olld canal wall in the middle arm of Bugsworth Basin. The new feeder pipes will provide up u to 3.5 million litres of water to the Peak Forestt Canal each day.

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THE Inland Waterways Association has given its backing He said transfer to the Canal & River Trust’s formal submission tions to the Canal of these naviga- with their support, & River Trust would to Defra for including those with the transfer of the EA navigations in Anglian investment Environment Agency’s allow these waterways to benefit their constituen navigation responsibi from members improved maintenan of the All Party Parliamencies, EA has announce d lities. ce, third party IWA national chairman, funding opportuni tary capital investmen a £1.4 million ties and the econo- Group for the Waterways, and other t programm e of has written to Waterway Ivor Caplan, mies of scale MPs repairs and who have previously to be gained from Minister, Dr upgrades to Anglian indicated their Thérèse Coffey MP, being support Waterways’ 353-mile for the transfer. to assure her of IWA’s part of a larger navigation authority. support for the proposal.

IWA has also written At the time of going it says will ensure network which to press 16 MPs to about 100 the structures MPs to ask them to write to the Minister responded positively, confirming that had remain in good working order they to come. for years would write to the Waterway Minister.

Continued on page FOLLOWING recent 3 team, the Canal & changes to its executive River Trust began THE Shropshire a 60-day internal consultatio Union Canal through n Drayton is getting Market FOXTON Locks has structural changes in early December about a facelift, thanks been voted ‘Best Day and a significant to an innovative arts project launched Free Entry’ at the reduction in Out’ – the size of its senior

by Market Drayton recent Leicestersh management team.

Partnersh Communi ire Promotion ip and the Canal ty Tourism and Hospitality to consultation, this Subject & River Trust. Plans would see the trust Awards. The 200-year- s are in place to develop old site on the Grand from the current move an arts and heritage 10 waterways to six Union Canal is home and interpreta trail longest tion boards along larger regions, and embed to the and steepest staircase the town centre more of the current towpath. Local artists, locks in the UK and is visited by 325,000 teams directly into national people each year the the Shropshire Housingsupported by a grant from and more than 4000 boats. Canal trust anticipates makingnew regional teams. The Group, have been & River Trust site with local schoolchil working Alex Goode said: manager about the new structuresfurther announcements “The murals which will dren and residents to create two in spring 2018. of the really important award is great recognition brighten the drab role our volunteers bridge carrying the concrete road welcoming visitors play in A53 bypass over to the waterway. the locks, side ponds Foxton Locks. They help keep and green areas looking great.”

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