Supporting £1.5m boost for canals

AT Thursday's Strategy & Resources meeting, the cross-party committee voted unanimously to support a funding boost of £1.5million to the Cotswold Canals Connected project, subject to council approval and to the award of a further National Lottery grant of £6.5million.

- Councillor Chloe Turner

This new funding would enable the project team to progress a new section of canal under the M5 and two new locks.

This would enable investment into a mooring basin, café and car park, for which planning permission has been awarded.

Stroud District Council co-leads the Cotswold Canals Connected project with The Cotswold Canals Trust and, together with other partners, has restored five miles of canal from Thrupp to Eastington.