{"id":34622,"date":"2022-10-18T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34622"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:31:49","slug":"great-musgrave-bridge-concrete-infill-must-be-removed-eden-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34622","title":{"rendered":"Great Musgrave bridge: Concrete infill must be removed &#8211; Eden DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30802\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Musgrave_railway_station_bridge_09.08.2016R_RuthAS_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/>Hundreds of tonnes of concrete poured under Victorian Great Musgrave railway bridge will have to be removed after being refused retrospective planning permission by Eden District Council (DC).<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By RuthAS \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50687148<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 NH will not appeal against Eden District Council&#8217;s refusal\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>National Highways (NH) carried out the work at Great Musgrave, Cumbria, in July 2021 to stabilise the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s road agency said the reinforcement was essential for public safety but critics branded the move \u201ccultural vandalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>NH will not appeal against Eden District Council&#8217;s refusal.<\/p>\n<p>It had said the bridge, built in 1862, was at risk of collapse if used by heavy vehicles but opponents claimed it could hold lorries weighing up to 44 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>More than 800 people had raised objection to the work.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Dew, chairman of Upper Eden Railway Heritage Partnership, described it as a \u201ccase of cultural vandalism and desecration of a highly valued structure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Ross, a Green Party councillor on the council&#8217;s planning committee, said the loss of a \u201cwildlife corridor\u201d beneath the bridge was a major concern.<\/p>\n<p>The plan had been recommended for refusal by planning officers \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>NH previously said that if the 1,500 tonnes of concrete had to be removed the bridge would still need strengthening at an estimated cost of \u00a3431,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-cumbria-61824392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of tonnes of concrete poured under Victorian Great Musgrave railway bridge will have to be removed after being refused retrospective planning permission by Eden District Council (DC). image: By RuthAS \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50687148<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34623,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions\/34623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}