{"id":40581,"date":"2024-08-02T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40581"},"modified":"2024-08-02T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:13:48","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-pi-decision-on-removing-congham-bridge-infill-favours-national-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40581","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: PI decision on removing Congham Bridge infill favours National Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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image for illustration: Congham Bridge – ‘\u00a0Overgrown railway bridge<\/a> north of Roydon’ by Richard Humphrey, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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National Highways has won its appeal against removing thousands of tonnes of concrete it poured under an historic railway bridge, reports Eastern Daily Press.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Eastern Daily Press<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

In October West Norfolk Council ordered the agency to remove material it had placed under Congham Bridge, on the former King’s Lynn to Fakenham railway line. It said it had \u2018obliterated\u2019 part of Norfolk’s railway history by infilling the 1920s structure. But the agency appealed…<\/p>\n

\u2026 planning inspector Laura Renaudon\u2026 described the case as \u2018finely balanced\u2019, adding: \u2018The harm to the value of the heritage asset is regrettable but needs to be balanced against the asset\u2019s overall low significance, the fact that the bridge is preserved, albeit buried\u2026<\/p>\n

Graeme Bickerdike from the Historical Rail Estate Group said: \u2018We\u2019re obviously disappointed that the infill is to remain\u2026<\/p>\n

Congham Bridge is one of just six which were built in the 1920s using Midland and Great Northern Railway engineer William Marriott’s designs – featuring unique curved wingwalls\u2026<\/p>\n

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image for illustration: Congham Bridge – ‘\u00a0Overgrown railway bridge north of Roydon’ by Richard Humphrey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons   National Highways has won its appeal against removing thousands of tonnes of concrete it poured under an historic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581","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=40581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40583,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581\/revisions\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}