Just seen this (posted by Dave Wedd on Canals-list@yahoogroups)

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Just received this - very little time to put in our comments!


http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=67548&CONTENT_ITEM_\
TYPE=0&MENU_ID=12189

Planning application S/07902/06/OUT
The above is the link that can be pasted into the internet bit so as to
have the page to respond to Birmingham Planning Applications.
It may be some years away, but volunteers had hoped that the Dudley
Number 2 canal in Selly Oak Park might be connected to the Worcester and
Birmingham Canal. The trouble is, British Waterways chap (now left)
thought that this was guaranteed - but the agents for Sainsbury think it
is nothing to do with them.
Result is that there is no one building a bridge to suit taking the
canal under the new huge complicated road layout.
All the Birmingham UDP stresses is having the old canal protected as a
walking route.

If you want to do something, the Council must put the roads in at levels
that allow a bridge sometime in the future. If the road levels go in
wrong, no canal EVER.

Planning application S/07902/06/OUT

Please forward as Closing Date is 7 Feb