{"id":34719,"date":"2022-10-28T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34719"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:54:54","slug":"national-highways-abandons-controversial-plan-to-infill-another-historic-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34719","title":{"rendered":"National Highways abandons controversial plan to infill another historic bridge"},"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\" \/>National Highways has abandoned its plans to infill a 156-year-old disused rail bridge in the South Downs National Park.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration only &#8211; image: By RuthAS \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50687148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>New Civil Engineer<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the road operator revealed that it would be instructing contractors to carry out the infilling of Stoke Road bridge under permitted development rights\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was met by strong opposition\u2026 the chief executive of the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) labelling the plans as \u201cvandalism\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>However, the work was put on hold by the Department for Transport\u2026 after the infilling of the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria caused a nationwide backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Now, National Highways has revealed that there is \u2018no need to conduct major works on the bridge\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/latest\/national-highways-abandons-controversial-plan-to-infill-another-historic-bridge-14-10-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Highways has abandoned its plans to infill a 156-year-old disused rail bridge in the South Downs National Park. image: for illustration only &#8211; image: By RuthAS \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons<\/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-34719","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\/34719","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=34719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34720,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34719\/revisions\/34720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}