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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council and British Waterways have, over many years, developed a successful record of partnership aimed at the regeneration and improvement of the canals. There is however no room for complacency, and both organisations have recognised that the time is right to produce a strategy for the canals in the Borough. (66.3 KB)
Dudley’s canal network varies widely in character and travels a linear twenty nine kilometres, in changing directions which takes it through many parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. (107 KB)
Dudley Council has many policies contained within its adopted Unitary Development Plan which are of direct relevance to the canal network and canalside development. They reflect the importance placed on the canal for recreation, wildlife and sensitive development. (560 KB)