Southampton News
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have supported railway upgrade work by carrying out a CCTV drainage survey after the installation of signaling equipment. The survey was needed to check the condition of a track drainage pipe after engineers working for Amey on behalf of South Western Railways had installed a new signal post. Drainage…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc are providing a range of sewer maintenance services for a company decommissioning a former nuclear research site. The teams from Lanes Southampton are delivering reactive and planned drainage services on the Magnox Winfrith site in Dorset. Magnox is delivering the decommissioning programme at the site near Wool on behalf…
A wellbeing app and practitioner initiative designed to increase workplace happiness and developed by Lanes Group plc has won a water industry innovation award. The idea of combining digital app technology with professional wellbeing support for workforce colleagues who need it has won the 2018 Institute of Water South East Region Innovation Award. Judges at…
Jet vac tanker driver Simon Rouse values the team spirit, sense of achievement, and the can-do approach to working at Lanes Group plc – all attributes he associates with his service in the Royal Navy. Simon, aged 57, has been as a jet vac operator at the Lanes Eastleigh depot since August 2015 – the…
Lanes Group plc has completed a three-year programme of maintenance work to survey, clean, and repair strategic highway drainage pipes across Portsmouth. Teams from the drainage specialist’s Eastleigh depot worked with Colas to carry out surveys, desilting, and repairs along 20 kilometres of large-diameter highway drains. Colas, which manages highway infrastructure for Portsmouth City Council…
It’s big, it’s bright pink – and it’s 25 years since the company that has become Britain’s biggest independent drainage specialist was launched. Lanes Group plc is celebrating its first quarter of a Century of unblocking Britain’s sewers by sending out two specially liveried new jet vac tankers onto the nation’s roads. Dodgy drains and…
CCTV drainage engineer Mick Bradley realised a life-long ambition and raised hundreds of pounds for a local cancer charity when he reached the highest point in the UK. Mick, who works at the Lanes Group Eastleigh depot, near Southampton, took up the challenge to walk to the top of Ben Nevis in Scotland in aid…
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…
