Press Releases

2-23-23 Press release Benchs -_
New benches for Whitehouse Wharf
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Press Release Andy Street starts work (2)
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(Updated) - 21-6-14 Press Release Land and water contract
Lapal Canal Trust signs contract with Land & Water Services Ltd to construct the first part of the restoration of the Dudley No 2 Canal in Selly Oak.
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14-6-21 Press Release Land and water contract
Lapal Canal Trust signs contract with Land & Water Services Ltd to construct the first part of the restoration of the Dudley No 2 Canal in Selly Oak.
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4-1-21 Veolia Grant Press Release
Veolia confirms a £75,000 contribution towards building the Winding Hole to start the restoration of the Dudley No2 canal
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Lapal trust launches £2m appeal to restore historic canal (February 19)
LAPAL Canal Trust has launched a campaign to raise £2 million for canal restoration in Birmingham’s Selly Oak.
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29-3-18 Battery Site progress review
Latest progress report on the Dudley the No 2 Canal across the former Battery Site in Selly Oak Birmingham. Newly released photos by Interserve /Landsec showing progress on the infrastructure works for the Dudley No 2 Canal restoration. Since appointing Interserve as the main contractor ...
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28-2-18 Battery Site progress
Since appointing Interserve as the main contractor in the summer of 2017 the Harvest Partnership of Sainsbury’s and Landsec is making very good progress in developing the Battery Site. They have just started work on ...
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28-1-18 Sense Press Release
The Lapal Canal Trust is superbly supported by the local community and organisations. The Lapal Trust has a wonderful opportunity to work together with SENSE to give disabled people and their carers a new ...
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19-1-18 HLF Grant
Terry Stanton, Chairman of the Lapal Canal Trust commentated “We are very pleased that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded ...
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1-10-17 G J W Turner Award
In April we wrote to G J W Turner Trust asking for support and we were delighted to receive a cheque for £...
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26-11-14 Headly Trust Grant
We are very pleased to confirm the award of a grant of £5,000 from the Headley Trust. This will be used to fund ...
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22-3-16 Canoe in Harborn Wharf
Following the removal of 2000 cubic meter of soil (equivalent of 100 lorry loads) from Harborne Wharf by Careys the Lapal Trust was delighted to see the winter rain filling up the basin with water. Attracting geese, ducks and canoeists.
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22-1-16 Gowling agree to assist the trust
The Lapal Canal Trust (LCT) is pleased to announce that it has secured the services of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co as its legal advisor. Headquartered in Birmingham, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is an ...
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20-11-15 Careys summary of Facebook v2
Big day today, the council planning committee considered our application to clear away materials from Harborne Wharf. Our application was
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20-11-15 Careys restore Harborne Wharf
On the 15th of October Birmingham City Council Planning Committee unanimously approved the planning application by the Lapal Canal Trust to remove spoil and to repair ...
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19-10-16 LCT AGM
Chairman Peter Best reported on a good year for the trust with notable achievements in our goal of restoring the canal.
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19-8-17 WRG Week activity
For the 2nd year we were very pleased that the Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) of the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) had accepted our request to help with our restoration project. The volunteers arrived on Saturday the 29th of July and ...
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11-6-17 Selly Oak Festival
“It was a wonderful Selly Oak Festival, big thanks to Friends of Selly Oak Park for the excellent arrangements and crowds of people. We would like to thank our own Trust Committee and in particular ...
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9-12-15 Lapal Trust engage local communities
The group was arranged by Legacy WM, a Birmingham charity which works to, amongst other things, engage and improve the health and well-being of local communities. The women were from ...
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8-8-16 WRG Week Activity
In a significant step forward a group of canal enthusiasts from the Inland Waterways’ Waterways Recovery Group descended on Selly Oak for one week of intensive canal restoration work. While mainly focussed on ...
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5-11-15 Careys support for the Lapal Canal Trust
On the 4th of November work started to restore the Harborne Wharf in Selly Oak Park. Birmingham City Council Planning Committee unanimously approved this important stage of the Lapal Canal restoration from Selly Oak to Halesowen.
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3-1-14 Lapal Student Competition
University Post Graduate Students in the West Midlands were asked to use their 21st century media and business skills to help restore an historic waterway.
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2-7-13 Warwick Students
They are also running a competition to encourage business students to come up with innovative ways of fund-raising for the project.
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1-3-16 Laser Mapping Article
The Trust has embarked on a restoration project to restore 5.5 miles of canal over the coming years, and being a trust, gains it's support through many avenues, one being ...
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