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Winter Works Plans, 2012-13

Have your say on our plans as they develop during spring and early summer.

General approach to planning winter works

Each winter, we take the opportunity of reduced cruising activity to concentrate effort on essential repairs and maintenance to the canals. In many cases, to do the work we have to close the navigation for boats and sometimes towpath walkers.

Public consultation on works planning 2012/13

Over the past two years we have encouraged more active involvement of waterway users in planning the timetable of works by publishing our plans on waterscape and inviting feedback on them. Due to the success of this scheme we are once again inviting you to review the provisional plans prepared by our local works planners, and to help us spot opportunities for better coordination to minimise disruption.

There are be two phases of consultation and we are now preparing for phase one. We’re inviting you to view the proposed stoppages and make comments.

Responses are required for phase 1 by Friday 8th June

Our works planners will then consider all comments received via waterscape and will make amendments both in response to these and as a result of updates from project engineers.

Version one of the plans will then be released on 11 July and you will have a chance to make further comments. Responses are required for phase 2 by Tuesday 31st July.

Our works planners will take your comments into consideration once more before the plan is 'locked down' for implementation over the winter. We expect to publish the final version during September.

Explore proposed works that will require navigation closure or restrictions on particular waterways.

Download version 1 of the plan as a csv file

View planned stoppages on our maps

From the pages showing the detail of each proposed stoppage (reached via explore proposed works), click the 'show map' button. Please be patient while waiting for the maps to display and note that they display at the detailed level only, not regionally. They show the precise kilometre length(s) affected by the stoppage. These are the 'live' maps created directly from the data currently stored in the site's database.

Regional maps in PDF format
These are created by our mapping team and display a little more clearly with more regional context. They do not update automatically like the live maps do when any corrections are applied to the data. Click on the relevant map below to download the pdf.