Sainsbury’s Take U-turn to Exclude Lapal Canal Link at Selly Oak, Birmingham

April 26, 2013 2 comments

Everyone loves the free wheel down into Birmingham City Centre along the Worcester & Birmingham through leafy Edgbaston. The new aqueduct at Selly Oak is a super addition albeit built to allow allow a bypass beneath. Whatever, it must have cost £millions, and I’m sure we are all grateful.

Now for the bad news. I reported in April 2012 that Sainsbury’s plans for the nearby development of waste land adjacent to the canal included a link canal to Selly Park which created a start for the restoration of the Dudley No2 (alias Lapal) Canal.

A revised planning application up for decision on 2 May 2013 now excludes this and, what is more, severely obstructs future possibilities for its construction.

Wouldn’t it be great to bypass Birmingham, for a change, and take the Dudley No 2 canal up into the canals in the Black Country and beyond?

Surely we must object to this anti-canal move by Sainsbury’s which can only be motivated by profit!

I have created an article on BrumCityCentre.com website (the official site of the Birmingham City Centre Neighbourhood Forum – a voluntary Council sponsored organisation) describing the problem and providing an easy way to object (or agree) to the outline plan application.

2 May is the deadline to submit your views, so please read my article and decide for yourself whether to object, which I hope I have made easy.

Click here to view the article.

#1 | Written by Mike Meaden about 12 years ago. Reply

Sainsbury’s like many others will promise whatever it takes to gain planning permission for yet another profit making venture – then, having no conscience, happily doing a u-turn killing off more of the small local shops to ensure success. They have no sincere interest in benefiting in anyway the local community unless it directly benefits them. These u-turns are happening regularly throughout the country and in the majority of cases it is the result of decisions made by weak `short sighted` Councils. It is most likely that within the next ten years hundreds of large supermarkets will be come warehouses, supplying the huge increase in `on line` shopping.
I most certainly object to the planned u-turn to the planning proposal.
#2 | Written by Noreen Connolly about 12 years ago. Reply

I am really disappointed at the uturn that seems to have taken place with regards to the proposals around the Canal and the exclusion of the Lapal Canal Link. I personally saw this as one of the main benefits of the planning proposal adding real benefit for the local community. I can confirm that I do object to the planned uturn to the planning proposal.

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Sainsbury’s Take U-turn to Exclude Lapal Canal Link at Selly Oak, Birmingham

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