8:30 Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme JH 8.40 Fishing & Angling - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• 6:30 – Welcome Trust update

JH

• 6:45 – Customer Operations

MM

− Q&A

• 7:30 Food/Networking
• 8:00 Community Development

TW

• 8:10 Enterprise

JT

• 8:20 Ramsden’s Swing Bridge

GR

• 8:30 Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme

JH

• 8.40 Fishing & Angling Action Plan

JE

• 8.50 Canal Society Update

MM

• Date of next meeting
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• Service
• Maintenance
• Efficiency
• Grow income – Property, Utilities, F/raising
• Community engagement
• Attract people – V/teers and Friends care
• Deliver community benefits

• Services, Whitley and Castleford
• Volunteers
• Leeds Waterfront Festival
• Tees Open Day
• Naburn Open Day
• Thornes and Tinsley Open Days
• Dewsbury Renaissance bid
• University of Leeds
• Pocklington, BD&D, Rother Valley
• Freight

• Services, Thorne and new at Broad cut ?
• Noticeboards key sites
• Dewsbury, Kirklees, Calderdale eng/ment
• PCAS / BD&D
• Naburn development
• University of Leeds – NERC
• Signage at key sites
• Tees Barrage North Tower
• Non powered – preparation for C2C
• Leeds WF and L&L Bicentenary

A Million Hands is a national partnership led by the Scouts Association The flagship project will see the Trust work alongside a number of well-established and highly regarded partners to engage with up to half a million young people across our network. It will help to:

• Increase community engagement across our network
• Deliver our vision: Living waterways transform places and enrich lives

A Million Hands will tackle four social issues with support from other national charity partners:

• Improving the lives of those affected by dementia with Alzheimer’s Society
• Improving the lives of those disabled by society with Leonard Cheshire

Disability and Guide Dogs

• Improving mental wellbeing and resilience with Mind
• Ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to clean water and sanitation with

WaterAid

Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, explains more about A Million Hands in this video message recorded especially for us:

Insert screen shot of homepage – 11am on Monday

Here’s the reaction from some of our customers:

The marketing and digital team would like to say a BIG thank you to everyone in the Trust who has put time and effort into helping make the new site live.

And some customers have shared some helpful ideas about how to keep improving the site. Their ideas will be looked at as the team continue to develop the site. “I’m very impressed with your new

• website. It should be held up as a

shining example to all website builders.” “The new website is very easy to navigate - looks clear and lovely to see local information so easily...” “Should the site homepage have the option to personalise and present regional information, rather like the BBC news site does? I would like to be able to access regional information directly from the homepage” “Any chance of a geographic map showing the regional coverage areas? It might be a quicker route to finding the right team

10,000 Volunteer Hours New Welcome Station 4 Monthly Task Forces 3 Litter Rangers 3 Lead Volunteers 24 Partner groups 30 Volunteer Lock keepers 2 River Patrol Groups

Aire & Calder

• Leeds Bridge to Thwaite Mill – 19th Nov to 23rd Nov
• 5th Jan to 18th Jan
• 1st Feb to 15th Feb
• 1st Mar to 15th Mar

Selby Canal

• Brayton Bridge – 15th Feb to 28th Feb

South Yorks Navigations

• Tinsley Lock Flight – 11th Jan to 12th Mar
• Rotherham Lock – 2nd Nov to 14th Dec

Calder & Hebble/HBC

• Bridge 1, Walker Bridge, 4th Jan to 11th Mar
• Bridge 41, Horbury Rd – 4th Jan to 4th Mar
• Lock 2, Salterhebble, 2nd Nov to 30th Nov
• Lock 7 Park Nook, 16th Nov to 14th Dec
• Lock 16 Cooper Bridge, 11th Jan to 1st Feb
• Lock 23 Figure of Three, 8th Feb to 29th Feb
• Lock 28 Fall Ings, 22nd Feb to 11th Mar
• Red Doles, Bridge 2, 1st Feb to 15th Feb
• Hillhouse Lane, Bridge 8, 1st Feb to 15th Feb

• 1

Prompt response to customer enquiries (4)

• 2

Clean and well maintained facilities (7)

• 3

Well maintained Structures (6)

• =3 Deliver on promises (4)
• 5

Safe environment (2)

• 6

Prompt enforcement (10)

• 7

Tidy and pleasant environment (3)

• 8

No graffiti/litter/dog mess (10)

Improving the operations and customer service experience.

17-Nov-15

17-Nov-15

Network Rail have been working closely with the Canal & River Trust to try and improve the safe and efficient passage of vessels through Selby Swing

• Bridge. The changes and improvements we have

made and are still waiting for are highlighted in this pack.

17-Nov-15

• The Canal & River Trust have updated their

website to show high tide times listed on line along with NWR preferred swinging times (natural gaps in the timetable). The intention is for the bridge

• perator to speak to vessels as they approaching

and ask if they can hold back or speed up to pass through the bridge within these gaps. Its also intended that vessels plan their journeys accordingly to avoid these times.

• IT to be placed in the Swing Bridge so the

Operator has live knowledge on train movements. Currently they can only get this information by speaking to the controlling Signal Box.

17-Nov-15

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/3601/selby- railway-bridge-river-ouse

email alert has been sent to all River Ouse subscribers. 04 Passage Planning Selby Rail Bridge Times Canal & River Trust in conjunction with Network Rail have issued the notice on their site and an email alert has been sent to all River Ouse subscribers. Network Rail have recently installed new bridge headroom monitoring equipment at Selby Rail Bridge and are working with CRT to develop a system of riverside bridge call up signs for Selby Rail Bridge. The call up signs will be designed and located to provide more reliable information

• f vessel arrival times at the bridge. When

completed these improvements will improve river safety and efficiency of bridge swings. Where at all possible, and safe to do so, skippers are also asked avoid requesting bridge swings at peak train times. Lowering masts in advance of bridge arrival can also reduce the amount of bridge swings. Details of train times and other useful safety information on navigating the River Ouse can be found at https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/north-east- waterways

17-Nov-15 The bridge now remains closed to river traffic between the hours of 2200-0600, Sunday to Friday inclusive. The bridge is be left open to river traffic when the box closes on a Saturday night until opening on the Sunday morning. This reduces the risk

• f the bridge failing prior to the first
• services. This notice has been issued by

the canal and river trust already and is now a signal box special instruction.

17-Nov-15 Signage on the River Ouse to ask vessels to call up at certain points as located on the map. The intention is that the bridge operator will have a better idea where the vessel is and have more notice when planning. (vessels are not required to have a VHF radio or give prior notice)

17-Nov-15

17-Nov-15 C&R Trust leaflet have amended their leaflets incorporating NWR on there planning travel leaflets, referencing the travelling public. (awaiting final versions)

17-Nov-15

• Network Rail to complete & commission I.T.
• Monitor progress
• Invite feedback
• Issue Navigation notice

Battyeford Island woodland walk Lock Lobby restoration

Leeds Waterfront River clean up Community Garden at the Tees Barrage

Updating Signage and Interpretation Wharf at Allerton Bywater

Knottingley Canal Side – WREN Sheffield & Tinsley Towpath – Sheffield CC Tees Barrage Wild Garden – Big Lottery Waterways To Health – Big Lottery Pocklington Canal – Heritage Lottery Fund

The £45M project to provide greater flood resilience in Leeds is now well underway. The works so far have involved:

• Walls to raise the heights of walls through Leeds, most

notably at River Lock, outside the Asda building and at Thwaites Mill.

• The weir at Knostrop has now been removed and the

water levels are being retained by a temporary weir while the new moveable weir is being constructed.

• Large sand bags have been placed along the south bank
• f the canal at Knostrop cut to act as a flood defence

during the works, because the placement of temporary works makes the risk of flooding greater than it was before.

• Knostrop Island is being removed.

Works over the next 12 months will include:

• Completion of the weir at Knostrop.
• Completion of the removal of the island.
• Permanent closure of Knostrop Flood Lock to

boats.

• Removal and replacement of Crownpoint weir
• Further wall raising works through Leeds, most

notably at Fearns Wharf.

• Stoppages:
• By working closely with Leeds City Council and their contractor

we have been able to minimise the effect on customers and have also agreed a much reduced programme of closures for the coming winter.

• Closures will now be: 13-19 November, 5-11 January. 12-18
• January. As a contingency we would also like to book 1-15

March although we are very optimistic this will not be needed and will advise once the works in January are complete.

• All stoppages will be at Crownpoint Bridge AL-002-001. Boats

leaving Clarence dock will only be able to travel downstream.

• To facilitate this much reduced programme of stoppages, we

have agreed to work with Leeds to implement short over-night closures a few times per month throughout next year. This will be to allow for large material deliveries to the site at Crownpoint weir.

• We look after our fishing rights
• Fishing rights are legal property which can be separated from ownership of

land.

• The Trust is the largest owner of fishing rights in the UK.
• The fishing rights in our ownership have a capital value.
• We negotiate all the legal agreements with our tenant customer clubs – circa

250 different club customers with membership of circa 80,000.

• We run some reservoir fisheries, known as our commercial fisheries, slightly

differently on almost a CRT franchise basis where we take a percentage of income.

• The Trust’s current income from fishing is circa £550,000.

• The team has a chartered fisheries

scientist and a degree level fisheries

• scientist. We are the team where the

Trusts’ fish and fisheries management expertise sits.

• We manage the Trusts’ £40 million worth
• f fish stocks.
• We contract manage the fisheries

management framework term contract which provides fisheries management and fisheries infrastructure services.

• We manage the fish rescue component of

emergencies and pollutions.

• Fish are the best indicator species of a

healthy aquatic ecosystem.

• Our customer clubs have around 80,000 individual members (CRT Angling

Survey 2014) all potential friends and supporters.

• An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 individual customers visit our commercial

fisheries annually.

• JE represents the Trust on the England Fisheries Group, Angling Trust

Freshwater Group, National Fish Welfare Group as well as regular liaison with contacts in All Party Parliamentary Angling Group.

• The Team has some direct fisheries volunteers such as Angling History &

Heritage Advisor.

• Much volunteering is carried out by volunteers working on behalf of our angling

club customers as contractually required in their agreements.

• Other volunteering undertaken by angling clubs is clearly beyond the

requirement of the agreement and increasingly becoming recognised and recorded.

• We will be rolling out a Voluntary Bailiff Service trial in London in spring 2016.

• We enable Fish Rescue

Education Days to happen.

• We are seeing increasing

interest from fisheries groups in restoration projects, for example the Manchester, Bury & Bolton Restoration.

• Getting the fishing habit
• Transforming & changing lives
• Creating community waters
• Hands up for the environment
• In 2014 it was agreed to develop a Fisheries &

Angling Action Plan (FAAP) for each waterway.

• Naturally the best waterway was chosen for the

pilot.

• Retain existing angling customers and attract new
• nes
• Develop & improve access to the fishery
• Create opportunities to engage with local

communities

• Take advantage of the opportunities for

volunteering & adoptions

• Improve communication between the Trust and its’

customers

• Funding
• Fish passage and

migration

• Predation & non-native

species

• Fish stocks & fisheries

management

• Fisheries and water

quality and quantity

Aire & Calder Canal Fishery Development to International Standard

• Joint initiative between NFAT, waterway & club
• David Kent of Angling Trust and Dick Clegg,

England International Manager, will lead on assessing the current suitability of the Aire & Calder as a venue for hosting international events and plan any necessary improvements.

• Fish population survey
• f Huddersfield Broad

Canal

• Junior participation

plan

• Angling club signage
• Fish passage
• Roll out of Voluntary

Bailiff Service

Any questions?

Thank you