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Government Planning Policy Overlooks National Role of Canals and Rivers

IWA has advised government to strengthen planning policy in recognising the role canals and navigable rivers play in housing, climate resilience, and local economies in a submission made via its Planning Advisory Panel to the The Ministry o...


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IWA’s New Restoration Delivery Group

Campaigning for and supporting the restoration of our inland waterways are strategic objectives for IWA, indeed they are the very foundation of why IWA was formed. Without IWA’s input, much of today’s network would not be navigable. However, the journey is not complete, and IWA’s trustees recognise that our work to deliver these objectives has lacked coordination and impact f...


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£6.5m Waterways Investment Welcome but Fails to Address Systemic Underfunding Crisis

IWA has welcomed the announcement of £6.5m Government investment in Canal & River Trust waterways, while warning this one-off capital grant is not the systemic funding reform Britain’s canals and rivers urgently need.

This additional investment will fund essential resilience work on specific infrastructure across the Canal & River Trust’s 2,000-mile network,...


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IWA Expresses Concern about Future Water Abstraction Regime

IWA agrees that abstraction planning must look decades ahead, but stresses that reservations should only extend a few years into the future due to the inherent uncertainty of long‑term water resource planning. IWA points out that Water Resources Management Plans (WRMPs) change significantly between five‑year cycles, making them an unreliable basis for long‑term licence reserv...


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Fenland Waterways Face Permanent Fragmentation as Old Bedford Sluice Becomes Fifth Indefinite Closure in the Region

IWA has warned that East Anglia’s waterways are being lost “in perpetuity” following the announcement that due to health and safety concerns, navigation though the Old Bedford Sluice V-doors has been closed indefinitely, the latest in a growing catalogue of closures across the Environment Agency’s Anglian waterways with no plans for reo...


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