[email protected] wrote: > The section immediately after Froghall Basin down to the A52 is > potentially the most challenging of all because we still don't know how > the former industrial area which spans almost the whole valley will be > redeveloped. We will continue to press to ensure that the canal is > accommodated in any plans but in the absence of specific proposals all > we can do for now is to continue to lobby the District Council at every > opportunity.
I suppose this could be one of those cases where the longer the redevelopment takes, the more time it gives you to get some 'easy' restoration done elsewhere, and therefore the better chance there is of the regeneration scheme accommodating (or hopefully facilitating) the restoration. There was a similar case on the Wey & Arun - a main road which cut the canal was due for widening: if it had been done when originally proposed in 1982 it almost certainly woudln't have made any provision for restoration so it was a good thing that it was repeatedly shelved; 28 years later we'd actually quite like it to happen as if it does it will undoubtedly provide for full navigation and get rid of a significant blockage. Martin L
