British Waterways eyesore boom

destroying an Oxford inner city beauty spot

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Isisbridge ^club

Mike Hamblett says: The turning pool below Isis Lock is one of the beautiful places in Oxford. A view not appreciated by British Waterways, who have just finished spoiling the appearance of this place with a floating pontoon and a barrage of rubber barrels.

It has been described as 'container port engineering'; everything is overspecified, badly designed and ugly and is actually causing problems for the larger boats which turn there.

At Isis Lock, the cast iron bridge is an example of how the canals were built with attention to
function and appearance: qualities overlooked by the recent vandalism by British Waterways.

A large sum of money has been squandered (over £100,000) when we all know of other more urgent requirements. It's annoying that they washed their hands of the Castle Mill Boatyard and it's left in that state while they ruin the charm of the Isis Pool with something that was not wanted.

Boats have been turning here for over two hundred years, nobody round here saw a need to spend scarce resources on this area. We also question if they have a legal right to block a part of the river that has always had boat traffic.

We are asking the Council, the Preservation Trust and Civic Society to look at this with the aim of reducing the scale of this ridiculous 'blot on the landscape'.

9 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.

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