Environment Agency waterways closures

Fenland waterways face permanent fragmentation as sluice becomes fifth indefinite closure

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March 11, 2026

The Inland Waterways Association has warned that East Anglia’s waterways are being lost ‘in perpetuity’ following the announcement that due to health and safety concerns, navigation though the Old Bedford Sluice V-doors has been closed indefinitely – the latest in a growing catalogue of closures across the Environment Agency’s Anglian waterways with no plans for…
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Campaigners Renew Calls for Long-Term Waterways Funding After £6.5m Government Boost

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February 26, 2026

CAMPAIGNERS responding to the Government’s extra £6.5 million investment in England’s and Wales’s canal network are once more calling for a top-level rethink into how waterways are funded. They say although the boost is welcome, it yet again underlines the ongoing underfunding crisis – and warn that this is only a one-off payment, not systemic…
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