image for illustration: Bourne Valley Vidaucts by Alex Liivet from Chester, United Kingdom, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A group has come forward and said it wants to take on Branksome East Viaduct to save it from potential demolition by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council, reports The Daily Echo.
The Daily Echo writes:
The disused Victorian viaduct is earmarked on the council’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDLP) for demolition by 2035 because it is ‘life expired’. It would cost around £2m to demolish the viaduct…
Campaigner Richard Page, of the Branksome Triangle Committee, said he is committed to saving the viaduct and wants to acquire it…
… Richard Page on the history of Branksome East viaduct: ‘The East Viaduct is a 100 metre long elegant curve of 10 locally fired red brick arches (actually it’s hard to know for sure because we can’t count them on the north side). … The disused East Viaduct is an ecological as well as heritage asset… The now heavily overgrown viaduct deck forms a corridor in the ecological network than runs from nature depleted Branksome to Talbot Heath, Meyrick Park and Puggs Hole.’
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