Growing a reed bed maybe? Plants help to clean up the water, and it’d look nice too.
It’s a floating wetland, good for birds, insects, water quality, rats, gathering floating rubbish in one place…
Sustainable drainage system. Helps filter runoff from the city into the river and so reduces pollution. Likely also to be that as it is a heavily modified watercourse, it contributes to improving it’s ecological potential in line with the water framework directive.
Straw helps remove algae
Does all of the above, but more importantly stops people from falling in or, more likely, being pushed in.
What are plants for?
Probably a good place for it – just down from The Con, that bit often has a ‘splashy’ quality from the loose paving plus water underneath – admittedly amusing at times – but maybe it will help with that too.
They look like ‘flats’ or ‘apartments’, they’re like little houses all stacked on top of one another and people live in them.
Prevents canal boaters mooring up?
Houses. For the mega elite to use when they want to visit London. They are everywhere and unlike the the homes of most londoners, these have multiple bedrooms and sometimes even a second toilet!
We could do with these in Manchester, give you a second chance if the ‘pusher’ gets you. /s
Got those in bristol docks. Lovely.
To stop fishing
They’re biodiversity beds intended to enhance the Regent’s canal, but they’re also a means to prevent boats mooring up in what was previously deemed to be a very overpopulated section of the canal between Camden and St.Pancras lock (aka Coal Drops Yard). Its part of Canal River Trust’s highly detested and controversial attempts to keep the number of boaters in Central London down.
People live in them /j
Planted up coir (coconut fibre) rolls. Planted up to create a more natural bank to support greater biodiversity. The coir and the string holding them together will eventually rot away, but leaving the plant roots holding together silt build up as a permanent feature.
I’ve used these at work a few times over the years.
Knowing London’s Civic planners it’s probably Some sort of thick growing thornbush in order to stop the poor folk from reaching dirty drinking water, forcing them to work another 13 hours as parking space holders at the rich people zones to afford a half liter of Buxton Abbey
Source: All the other things they do which defy human logic in favour of cruel malice, like they’re trying to power up some sort of pain driven hate machine.
Also I used to work in London. But not as a Civic planner.
Rice field allotments? Helps with cost-of-living crisis. Lol.
Geese by the looks of it
If I were to take a guess…
– barley straw inhibits blanket weed which should clean the water
– additional planting will aerate the water and make it more suitable for aquatic life
– to use the old buzzword, decarbonisation / sequestration / cleaning the inner city air
– wildlife habitat – as the plants grow it will provide cover for ground nesting birds
Dognappers hun
It’s because life needs things to live
I hope it helps with the puddles on that part of the canal, every time I walk past, stepping on the wobbly paving stones squirts muddy water on your shoes.
Flood defence, more aesthetically pleasing and safety barrier between pedestrians and the canal.
It’s a river mate. People go on boats etc up and down the river.
I have a (very) small coir mat in my garden pond, planted up with native plants. They use these on canals for restoration. It’s brilliant.
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What do you think they’re for?
Yeah but I’m not telling you
Growing a reed bed maybe? Plants help to clean up the water, and it’d look nice too.
It’s a floating wetland, good for birds, insects, water quality, rats, gathering floating rubbish in one place…
Sustainable drainage system. Helps filter runoff from the city into the river and so reduces pollution. Likely also to be that as it is a heavily modified watercourse, it contributes to improving it’s ecological potential in line with the water framework directive.
Straw helps remove algae
Does all of the above, but more importantly stops people from falling in or, more likely, being pushed in.
What are plants for?
Probably a good place for it – just down from The Con, that bit often has a ‘splashy’ quality from the loose paving plus water underneath – admittedly amusing at times – but maybe it will help with that too.
They look like ‘flats’ or ‘apartments’, they’re like little houses all stacked on top of one another and people live in them.
Prevents canal boaters mooring up?
Houses. For the mega elite to use when they want to visit London. They are everywhere and unlike the the homes of most londoners, these have multiple bedrooms and sometimes even a second toilet!
We could do with these in Manchester, give you a second chance if the ‘pusher’ gets you. /s
Got those in bristol docks. Lovely.
To stop fishing
They’re biodiversity beds intended to enhance the Regent’s canal, but they’re also a means to prevent boats mooring up in what was previously deemed to be a very overpopulated section of the canal between Camden and St.Pancras lock (aka Coal Drops Yard). Its part of Canal River Trust’s highly detested and controversial attempts to keep the number of boaters in Central London down.
People live in them /j
Planted up coir (coconut fibre) rolls. Planted up to create a more natural bank to support greater biodiversity. The coir and the string holding them together will eventually rot away, but leaving the plant roots holding together silt build up as a permanent feature.
I’ve used these at work a few times over the years.
Knowing London’s Civic planners it’s probably Some sort of thick growing thornbush in order to stop the poor folk from reaching dirty drinking water, forcing them to work another 13 hours as parking space holders at the rich people zones to afford a half liter of Buxton Abbey
Source: All the other things they do which defy human logic in favour of cruel malice, like they’re trying to power up some sort of pain driven hate machine.
Also I used to work in London. But not as a Civic planner.
Rice field allotments? Helps with cost-of-living crisis. Lol.
Geese by the looks of it
If I were to take a guess…
– barley straw inhibits blanket weed which should clean the water
– additional planting will aerate the water and make it more suitable for aquatic life
– to use the old buzzword, decarbonisation / sequestration / cleaning the inner city air
– wildlife habitat – as the plants grow it will provide cover for ground nesting birds
Dognappers hun
It’s because life needs things to live
I hope it helps with the puddles on that part of the canal, every time I walk past, stepping on the wobbly paving stones squirts muddy water on your shoes.
Flood defence, more aesthetically pleasing and safety barrier between pedestrians and the canal.
It’s a river mate. People go on boats etc up and down the river.
I have a (very) small coir mat in my garden pond, planted up with native plants. They use these on canals for restoration. It’s brilliant.
https://preview.redd.it/2jgnfuzhy1vf1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4eabb6844ecebc7ffe4b261fcfe4c601ff41713
Geese? Recipe ideas for immigrants.
Flooding?
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