----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Wedd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Canals-List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:14 PM Subject: [canals-list] Fw: Lapal Canal at Selly Oak
> Just received this - very little time to put in our comments! > > > http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=67548&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=12189 > > Planning application S/07902/06/OUT > The above is the link that can be pasted into the internet bit so as to > have the page to respond to Birmingham Planning Applications. > It may be some years away, but volunteers had hoped that the Dudley Number > 2 canal in Selly Oak Park might be connected to the Worcester and > Birmingham Canal. The trouble is, British Waterways chap (now left) > thought that this was guaranteed - but the agents for Sainsbury think it > is nothing to do with them. > Result is that there is no one building a bridge to suit taking the canal > under the new huge complicated road layout. > All the Birmingham UDP stresses is having the old canal protected as a > walking route. > > If you want to do something, the Council must put the roads in at levels > that allow a bridge sometime in the future. If the road levels go in > wrong, no canal EVER. > > Planning application S/07902/06/OUT > > Please forward as Closing Date is 7 Feb I have commented on the plan and asked that a navigable channel be provided under Harborne Lane. Dorothy
