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Canals improvement in the spotlight with new website

A new website has been launched which invites Staffordshire residents, communities and businesses to explore ways they can work together to enhance the county’s canals and other waterways.

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The Trent and Mersey canal in Stone is at the heart of the town

The website has been developed by the Staffordshire Waterways Group (SWG) to provide a vision for the county’s waterways and suggests an approach for improving each canal, as well as encouraging local councils and other organisations – as well as residents – to get involved.

Individuals, groups, councils and businesses are invited to contact the group if they would like to get involved, have an idea they are looking to develop, or wish to support any part of Staffordshire’s waterways. Through the website and the SWG network, the group will provide contacts and make connections to help new projects get under way.

Roger Savage, chairman of the SWG, said: “Staffordshire is at the heart of the national inland waterways network, it has more miles of canal than any other shire county, along with rivers, lakes and reservoirs galore. We need to look after and to grow the use of our waterways, they are major assets which contribute substantially to our county’s health and well-being and economy, bringing visitors by boat, cycle and on foot. We all enjoy Staffordshire by water, and the group is passionate about helping others put their ideas into action.”
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Staffordshire Waterways places to visit. (L to R) Jane Dudson, Ian Dudson (Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire), Geoff Reynolds (Canal & River Trust Central Shires Waterways Partnership) and Julie Arnold (Staffordshire Waterways Group)
SWG is a partnership of volunteer canal societies working with Staffordshire County Council and the Canal & River Trust and has already helped attract considerable investment for towpath improvements and delivered many great environmental and access projects.
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