----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 5:14 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Fw: Lapal Canal at Selly Oak
> Dave Wedd wrote: >> Just received this - very little time to put in our comments! >> > > Done.... > > > Will Chapman >> >> 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 had a letter from the Lapal Canal Trust, of which I am a member, enclosing a copy of Sainsbury's leaflet 'exciting regeneration plans for Selly Oak'. Peter Best of the Trust pointed out in his letter that Sainsbury's 'are making a public statement and pledge of their intention to restore the length of the Lapal Canal up to the replacement bridge at Harborne Lane'. He seemed pleased with the proposed development. I suppose this could be taken either that there *will be* a replacement bridge, or that Sainsbury's are restoring that section because that is all that will be left! The site plan seems to indicate a channel under the road, but that may be artistic licence. I think I had better do a letter to the council, pointing out the need for a navigable channel under the road, just in case. Dorothy
