We are currently restoring a 650-metre section of the Lichfield Canal and need to fund a new lock. This is essential to manage the water in the canal for wildlife and to allow boats to navigate. Canals are a great way to help tackle climate change through the blue-green corridor they create.
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Situation
We are restoring the canal between Lichfield and Brownhills, which was abandoned in the 1950s and filled in. This means there is no navigable gateway to the Birmingham Canal Navigations, so the Wyrley and Essington (W&E) Canal is underused through Brownhills, putting it at threat of decline. The Lichfield Canal will create a vital blue-green corridor from Brownhills through Lichfield and to the Coventry Canal, as a connected and more bio-diversity rich habitat.
Solution
The Lichfield Canal will connect the W&E Canal and Coventry Canal creating vital linear habitats; aquatic, marginal and land, addressing the need for connected habitats. It will protect against the impacts of climate change through flood attenuation, carbon capture and will help with urban cooling. It will also improve active travel links giving great alternatives to carbon based transport both locally and regionally.
