British Waterways......wasting our resources??

Has anyone read the weekend supplement to the Daily Telegraph on Sunday? Front page article is about the very real possibility of closure for Oxford's last working canal boatyard. Sad days indeed. BW has become a huge developer and it's duty to preserve, enhance and grow the canal network under it's charter with the government is being compromised. How can it fulfill all those functions when it's developement arm is the main enemy of something like Castlemill boatyard?



Please visit the Castlemill Boatyard petition <a href="http://www.portmeadow.org/page0.html">here</a>

here and add your name. It might not deter this march of soulless develepoment but to not argue against it would be ludicrous. This isn't so much about our fishing but it is the waterways and and if BW are doing this to balance the books and pay their way, who's to say that fishing/rights aren't next?

Sorry about the grammar and failed weblink. Will try to find an electronic copy of the article and will attach later.

Nigel sorry I won?t be signing the petition for the Weekend Admirals. BW reopened 3 years ago the Rochdale canal for these types and ruined the fishing on one of the best canals in the NW.
Not only that but destroyed a 15 mile SSSI site, which contained native crayfish, and several nationally rare water plants in the process.

Frankly BW and the Weekend Admirals can go away in very jerky movements for what they have done to the Rochdale.

On this matter Phil, BW and the weekend admirals are poles apart. Did the Rochdale canal use to be open to boats before? If not then it's questionable why they've opened it now. But let's not forget that canals are meant for boats. The point here is that BW want to do away with any old buildings/yards etc and develop new soulless features and structures which have nothing to do with waterways.