Local Authority and Public Sector News
Lanes Group has won a key role as a drainage services provider for Wrexham Borough Council. The company, the largest independent drainage specialist in the UK, has been selected as one of the preferred suppliers for the council’s framework contract for drainage repairs to council housing and corporate buildings. The contract is due to go…
Lanes Utilities drainage engineers have been presented with certificates of thanks from a towns mayor for playing a key role in alleviating a flood that engulfed a housing estate. Councillor Dan Putty, the mayor of Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council, in Hampshire, made the gesture after the Lanes team was involved in a multi-agency emergency…
Lanes Group is helping to identify and resolve widespread potential flood problems in a town in Greater Manchester. Bolton Council has called in Lanes to carry out CCTV drainage surveys of culverts, followed by cleaning works, as part of the strategic management of flood risks in the town. The council, as Lead Local Flood Authority…
Lanes engineers have been praised for quickly getting to the root of a drain blockage at a college involving a build up of cooking fat – because the real culprit was a tree. The team from Lanes Group’s regional depot in Bristol was called in to investigate a waste water drain blockage at a higher…
Lanes Group engineers have used their no dig technology to save a local authority money and allow primary school children to carry on playing. They were able to mend an underground pipe without having to dig up an artificial grass play area, winning generous praise for the efficiency and quality of their work in the…
Lanes Group has used its innovative drainage technology to carry out the first ever reline repair of a refuse chute in a residential tower block in England. Its engineers reached for the skies instead of going underground to refurbish two chutes at the 13-storey Devonshire Tower in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The technique, pioneered by…
Lanes for Drains engineers have turned super sleuths to help progress a motorway construction project vital to major plans to regenerate a large part of Portsmouth. Innovative survey work was needed to allow Lanes’ client, Colas, to finalise plans for a new motorway junction required as part of a £130m regeneration scheme for Tipner promoted…
Repairing sewers by no-dig methods is quicker and less disruptive than excavation. But when the pressure is really on, as it was on a £1.7million project for Severn Trent Water (STW) to repair 2500-metres of sewers, Lanes has UV light technology which allows the company to renovate pipes in double quick time. The Victorian sewerage system…
