Springtime is a very busy period for the Grand Union Canal Transfer’s aquatic ecology team, with May and early June being the optimal months for completing our all-important ecology surveys. Understanding the wildlife and ecology that resides along the scheme’s proposed route is integral to ensuring their protection, and vital to delivering a scheme that […]
Phase Two Public Consultation for the Grand Union Canal Transfer (GUCT) will formally launch on Wednesday 11 February, and will run for seven weeks until 23:59pm on Thursday 2 April 2026. In this consultation, we’re presenting proposals for the scheme that have been updated since our Phase One Public Consultation which took place in Autumn […]
The Winter edition of our Community Update is now available, and we’re excited to share how we’re working to maintain water quality as we develop the scheme. We’ve created a short animation to explain the water recycling process, and we’ve answered some specific questions from our Phase One Public Consultation on the quality of water […]
Water recycling is an important and innovative process that ensures homes, schools and businesses around the UK receive clean, safe and high-quality drinking water, but many customers are unaware of how the process actually works. To address this, we’ve created a short animation to take you through the process, demonstrating how water recycling is a […]
Ensuring we protect and preserve wildlife, and conserve heritage sites and architecture is vital to the development of the Grand Union Canal Transfer (GUCT), and our teams have been hard at work surveying the scheme’s proposed route. Over the last 12 months, the GUCT’s Environmental team has been traversing the scheme’s proposed route, surveying the land that’s been identified for the transfer to be built and developed. From locating badger nests to laying reptile mats and […]
While we prepare for our next public consultation in early 2026, we’ve agreed to keep you updated on key elements of the scheme. At our first non-statutory consultation, in autumn 2024, we identified two potential options for connecting to the canal near Atherstone. Option 1 was a route from Coleshill Road across a section of […]
Britain’s historic former industrial canal network is set to play a pivotal role in creating a sustainable and resilient water supply for 750,000 people in the Southeast. Plans currently being consulted upon could see the historic Coventry, Oxford and Grand Union canals transform water supply by transferring millions of litres of water each day from […]
