Its a shame that such a beautiful river as the Kennet is at the mercy of development, especially when members of Ark work on maintaining it..

This is the relevant organisation that seems to be in the forefront of protecting the River Kennet. Expansion by Swindon has always been a problem, I would have thought that with the universities pulling out of the Coate Water business, house building would seem to be on hold.
Ark seem to have run a campaign in June, with letters etc

http://www.riverkennet.org/threats_abstraction.php