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Canal boat owner slams people littering the water as they spot ‘dead animals’


Alan de Enfield

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15 minutes ago, magnetman said:

In the original topic title more detail is needed about the dead animals. 

 

There are a lot of dead birds around due to the avian flu thing but if there are also a lot of dead mammals in the cut someone might be doing something bad/good like taking cats and throwing them in. 

 

Its probably just normal amounts of dead animals for a terrible suburb type area

 

Alperton's no worse than many other urban canal areas, and probably better than many especially with the amount of new development going on -- which you may not approve of, but is much less grotty than what used to be there.

 

The same is happening at various locations along the Paddington Arm (e.g. Greenford) as developers take the opportunity to build overpriced canalside rabbit hutches to try and satisfy the demand for housing. Which is fine except the biggest demand is for social/truly affordable housing, which AFAIK is not what any of these are -- or at least, apart from the token minimum needed to get planning permission... 😞

 

Still the new effect is to move the area upmarket and de-grottify it, which is surely not entirely a bad thing, for example if visitors want to moor there?

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On 23/03/2023 at 15:21, Captain Pegg said:

 

It's impossible not to be square on to mooring rings. I swear the little blighters see you coming and shuffle up.

 

Always happens to us in central Birmingham! Time for a spring or two!

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