{"id":41579,"date":"2024-11-29T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41579"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:52:54","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-group-looks-to-take-on-viaduct-to-stop-bcp-councils-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41579","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Group looks to take on viaduct to stop BCP Council&#8217;s &#8216;demolition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bourne_Valley_Viaducts_Alex_Liivet_Chester_Commons_Wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bourne_Valley_Viaducts_Alex_Liivet_Chester_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41580\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bourne_Valley_Viaducts_(51277081441).jpg\">Bourne Valley Vidaucts<\/a> by Alex Liivet from Chester, United Kingdom, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <em>The Daily Echo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Daily Echo<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disused Victorian viaduct is earmarked on the council\u2019s Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDLP) for demolition by 2035 because it is \u2018life expired\u2019. It would cost around \u00a32m to demolish the viaduct\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Campaigner Richard Page, of the Branksome Triangle Committee, said he is committed to saving the viaduct and wants to acquire it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 Richard Page on the history of Branksome East viaduct: \u2018The East Viaduct is a 100 metre long elegant curve of 10 locally fired red brick arches (actually it\u2019s hard to know for sure because we can\u2019t count them on the north side). \u2026 The disused East Viaduct is an ecological as well as heritage asset\u2026 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.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/24716142.group-look-take-viaduct-stop-bcp-councils-demolition\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[18,29,49,16],"class_list":["post-41579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-conservation","tag-heritage","tag-history","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579","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=41579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41581,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579\/revisions\/41581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}