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New drainage depot boosts service and sustainability

10/10/2016

Lanes Group plc has opened a new drainage services depot in Slough, Berkshire, to serve West London and the Thames Valley. The move enhances the company’s ability to support customers in the region with a comprehensive range of drain unblocking, repair and rehabilitation services, and improves the sustainability of its operations. The depot, known as…

Lanes supports contractor curing major road bottleneck

06/10/2016

Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc are coming to the end of a major programme of highways work to cure one of the worst road bottlenecks in the North West of England. They have been supporting Highways England’s main contractor, Costain, in the development of a new 4.5-mile section of the A556 trunk road between…

Lanes secures prison drainage cleaning and survey work

06/10/2016

  Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have carried out a comprehensive drainage survey at a privately-run prison. Sodexo Justice Services commissioned Lanes Group’s Manchester depot to carry out the work at the category B Forest Bank prison, at Swinton, Salford, which can hold 1,460 male prisoners. Alistair Culpan, Assistant Facilities Manager for the prison, said:…

Lanes for Drains welcomes the microbead ban

05/10/2016

The UK government is expected to ban the sale of microbeads by the end of 2017, following advice from the House of Commons Environmental Committee and pressure from environmental campaigners. It’s great news for the oceans (and the country’s drainage system!) But why are microbeads so bad for the environment? What are microbeads? Microbeads are…

Drainage survey supports Bolton’s rail service boost

27/09/2016

Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have been doing some drain spotting, not train spotting, at Bolton Railway Station to help prepare for a £1 billion electrification of rail services. The comprehensive line and level survey across all platforms at the station in Station Street, Bolton, was carried out over five nights. A two-person CCTV drainage…

Lanes backs young footballers in Nottingham youth league

15/09/2016

Young footballers are looking the part as they start their new season thanks to sponsorship from East Midlands drainage specialist Lanes Group plc. The Pegasus Falcons, the under-13s team at Pegasus Youth Football Club in Nottingham, has 20 players, all keen to do well over the coming months. The team is coached by Lee Johnson,…

Lanes proves it has the power to support energy industry

15/09/2016

  Drainage engineers from Lanes Group are proving they have the power to support one of the UK’s fastest growing industrial sectors – renewable energy. The company’s vacuumation and water jetting technology is ideally-suited to cleaning pipes and tanks in a range of different renewable energy plants. Lanes drainage expertise has been used to support…