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- Feasibility of Restoration
- Final Report Presentation
- 3 November 2006
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- To provide a feasible and costed proposal for reinstating navigation
from the River Calder to the South Yorkshire Navigation including the
Worsborough and Elsecar Branches and the Barnsley Canal to Barugh
- To identify the economic benefits of restoration
- To identify the environmental effects of restoration
- To provide a justification for protecting the restoration schemes in the
emerging LDF’s from Barnsley, Wakefield and Rotherham
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- Linkage of two canals
- Creation of wide beam Yorkshire Ring
- Promotes extra use of quieter navigations
- Scope to expand tourism market of sub-region
- Provides opportunities for strong links between canal and local towns
- Long summit level valuable for local amenity
- Regeneration of communities along canal length
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- Development on the line of the canal
- Walton
- Rexam's
- Harborough Hill
- Stairfoot
- Wath on Dearne
- Mining Subsidence
- Worsborough and Elsecar Branches
- Main Line of Dearne and Dove Canal
- Waddington’s Yard, Swinton
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- Barnsley Canal: £122,788,979
- Dearne And Dove Canal £135,046,781
- Total £258 Million
- “Big Ticket Items”
- Aqueducts £116 Million
- Branches £23 Million
- Other
- Mining Hazard £6 million
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- Moored Boats: £870 pa per boat
- Hire boats: £750 per week
- Private boater spend £9.44 per person per day
- Hire Boater spend £13.32 per person per day
- Towpath Visitors £4.57 per person per day
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- Canal restoration is technically feasible
- Requirement for what would be the two longest aqueducts in the world
- Dearne and Dove Canal substantially a new route
- Headline costs based on contractors prices
- Headline cost will be off-putting politically and economically
- Look to reduce costs to assist in promoting scheme
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- Remove Two Branches
- Cheaper solutions to major structures
- Principle savings by locking down to valley floor at each end of the
two extra-large aqueducts
- Narrow beam restoration
- Cost of scheme if all three savings are implemented:
- £127 Million
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- Beam and nature of major diversions does not affect protection of
through route
- Elsecar Branch should be protected anyway as historic feature
- Easement needed along Worsborough Branch for water supply and multi user
route
- THUS DECISIONS ON COST SAVINGS CAN BE MADE AT A LATER DATE
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- Surviving canal bed where reuse is recommended
- Extensions across open ground
- Short connections between above
- Remaining sections
- This leaves much of the Dearne and Dove for the last stage.
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- Walton Top Lock to Cold Hiendley
- Cold Hiendley to Royston
- Dearne Valley Country Park
- Smithies Lane to Barugh
- Elsecar Branch
- Swinton
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- Owned and Managed By British Waterways
- Owned and Managed By Environment Agency
- Owned by Local Authorities/Trust managed by BW/EA
- Owned and managed by Local
Authorities/Trust
- Recommend BW management with local ownership
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- Creation of an amenity
- Opportunities for community involvement
- Training Schemes
- Social Inclusion
- Offender Rehabilitation
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- Canals should be restored as through route including Barnsley Canal to
Barugh
- Line should be protected in LDFs and by PPG13
- Elsecar Branch should be protected as historic feature
- Worsborough Branch should be protected as water supply and multi-user
trail
- Multi user trail along canal route should be established at an early
stage
- Future of surviving lengths not proposed for restoration should be
reviewed
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- To Achieve Recommendations
- Appoint a project officer
- Undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Undertake preliminary design studies for land purchase requirements
- Commence negotiations with land owners
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