HE7 Canals

The Council will seek to improve the recreational, environmental, historic and nature conservation value of the canal network and enhance its attractiveness to visitors by methods such as restoration and will seek to ensure adherence to the guidance, and pursue the implementation of the proposals, contained in the Council’s “Strategy for Dudley’s Canals”.

Development adjacent to canals will be required to:

preserve and/or improve public access to, and use of, canals;
conserve and/or enhance buildings and structures of historic or architectural merit;
conserve and/or enhance areas of value for nature conservation; and where feasible create new areas;
front onto the waterway;
enhance the canal environment; and
maintain canals as navigable waterways and restore them where appropriate.

Development on sites including sections of disused or filled in canals should protect the line of the canal through the detailed layout of the proposal.

Other Relevant Policies

Implementation

Through the Development Control process.
Through the Council’s “Strategy for Dudley’s Canals” published as Supplementary Planning Guidance.

Monitoring

Planning decisions.
Length of canal improved.

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