Following a mammoth planning application which has taken nearly two years for the local planning authorities to determine, the Friends of the Cromford Canal have finally been granted planning permission to develop part of the former Smotherfly opencast site into a new length of canal.
See http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk/planning.html for details of the project. There's now got to be a LOT of fundraising to allow the project to go ahead. Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk
