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IWA launches IWC proposals

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) unveiled its own vision for the future of the UK’s inland waterways on February 16 after British Waterways (BW) had announced it was to move its own operation into ‘the third sector’.

‘We’ve had a long stated vision and aim for a National Waterways Conservancy (IWC), going back to the 1950s,’ said the IWA national chairman, Clive Henderson. ‘Today we’re launching a revised version of this vision to encourage wider public and stakeholder discussion, at a time when we feel there is an opportunity to seek to widen the discussion on what is the right model for the sustainable governance of the inland waterways of this country.’

With over 5,000kms of navigable waterways in the ownership or control of over 30 navigation authorities, the two largest being the government funded and controlled agencies, BW and the Environment Agency (EA), the IWA says its vision is to encourage the formation of a larger, rationalised, organisation incorporating both BW and the EA managed waterways, together with the opportunity for other non-publicly funded navigations to join a national IWC.

‘It wouldn’t be a case of a takeover by one organisation of another, but something completely new,’ said Mr Henderson.

A copy of the IWA’s IWC proposals can be viewed here.

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