Middlesbrough News
Friends Debora Harrison and Doug Meynell are looking forward to the 20th anniversary since they started working at the same drainage depot on the same day. They met for the first time on 5th June 2000, the day they both started at Lanes Group plc’s Teesside depot – and approaching two decades later, they’re still…
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc has relocated to a new depot in Stockton on Tees – pledging support for the town’s economy and providing its team with a bright new place to work. The company has moved less than two miles down the road from Black Path to Pennine Avenue, close to the…
A team of wastewater engineers from Lanes Group plc has completed the cleaning of a giant sewage holding tank that had become clogged with millions of wipes wrongly flushed done toilets. Working for Northumbrian Water, the ten operatives took ten days to clean out the aeration tank at Marske water treatment works near Redcar on…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been supporting housing developers across Teesside in preparing new drains to be integrated into the sewer system. Teams based at the Lanes depot at Stockton-on-Tees are working for construction companies to make sure sewers built on new housing estates are fit to meet requirements of a Section 104…
A North East water company is throwing its weight behind the world’s first sewer blockage awareness month, Unblocktober, and is urging customers to not use toilets as a bin. Unblocktober, launched by the Lanes Group, is all about making small changes to people’s daily habits and only flushing the 3Ps – pee, paper and poo…
CCTV surveys of highway drains along one of the busiest stretches of road in the North East of England have helped pave the way for a major improvement project. Highways England has earmarked up to £128m to upgrade the A19 between Norton and Wynyard in the Tees Valley to reduce congestion, noise pollution, and to…
Lanes Group plc has created 12 new jobs after winning a major contract to clean wet wells for Northumbrian Water. The drainage and utility solutions specialist has opened a new utility hub at its depot in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, to deliver the planned and reactive maintenance work. The three-year contract, with an optional two-year extension,…
Lanes Group has achieved, through re-auditing, the Bronze accreditation for its UK transport fleet under the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS). The company first achieved FORS Bronze in 2014 and successfully passed its annual audit in March – demonstrating that it sets nationally recognised safety and operational management standards. The FORS scheme is operated by Transport…