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Drainage and wastewater specialist service provider Lanes Group plc has appointed Julie Hobbs as its finance director. Julie had been the company’s long-standing financial controller. Her appointment follows the death, in January 2022, of the financial director, David Nutton. Lanes Managing Director Wayne Earnshaw said: “We’re delighted Julie has agreed to join the Lanes board…
Lanes Group plc Chief Executive Wayne Earnshaw has marked the 30th anniversary of the company his father founded by making the first cut in a cake shaped like a jet vac tanker. The UK’s largest independent drainage and wastewater specialist operates hundreds of the specialist vehicles that can clean sewers and suck up waste for…
New digital technologies developed by Lanes Group plc are creating more sustainable ways to develop and manage the UK’s highways network. The national drainage and wastewater services specialist is providing highway construction and maintenance clients with more sustainable and faster ways to assess drainage assets. And it is doing this by controlling the flow of…
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc has been named as a finalist in two categories in the prestigious Water Industry Awards. The company has been shortlisted for the Customer Initiative of the Year Award for its customer advocacy training programme which has achieved significant improvements in customer satisfaction. It is also a finalist in…
One of Lanes Group plc’s longest-serving sales managers has swapped directing jet vac tankers to customer worksites for guiding a rally car at hair-raising speeds around the forests of Wales. Ian Clapham, Area Development Manager for the North West region, is reviving his career as an amateur rallying navigator, giving his driver directions as they…
A field manager working for Lanes Group plc has initiated the opening of the first ever military memorial at a Thames Water sewage treatment works and possibly at such a facility anywhere in the UK. What might be the smallest garden of remembrance in Britain has been created next to the Lanes depot based at…
Buried ducts that will hold the high voltage cables connecting the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to the National Grid have been surveyed and cleared of water by drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc. A team from the Lanes Bristol depot has carried out the CCTV survey and cleaning project so the 12…
Lanes Group plc is gearing up to mark its 30th anniversary with a programme of activities throughout 2022 to celebrate its teams’ achievements and raise money for its charities. The company, famous for its bright pink branding, began as a one depot drainage company in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in April 1992, employing 15 people with…
