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Historic bridge 'never needed' controversial works08/02/2024 National Highways has admitted that controversial infilling works at a historic railway bridge, which then had to be removed at a total cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, might never have been needed in the first place. |
Battle over bridge infill set for Planning Inspectorate showdown10/10/2023 National Highways has said it is planning to appeal a local decision that could force the road operator to reverse another infill from a bridge on its Historical Railways Estate (HRE). |
Locals 'delighted' with HRE's constructive approach to bridge plan28/09/2023 National Highways is working with local partners to facilitate and partly fund a planned active travel route in Somerset by a plan to open a route under a disused railway bridge. |
'Valued landscape asset' re-emerges as infill is reversed25/08/2023 Campaigners have welcomed work by National Highways to restore a historic railway bridge in Cumbria that it controversially filled in with concrete two years ago. |
National Highways team breathes life back into historic viaduct28/02/2023 National Highways’ Historical Railways Estate has returned a 16-arch viaduct in Scotland to its former glory with extensive restoration and repair work, making future use as an active travel route ‘a real possibility’. |
National Highways' railway structures strategy ‘unravelling'09/02/2023 National Highways' strategy of using emergency powers to infill historic railway structures is ‘unravelling’, campaigners have said, after a third council told it to seek planning permission, without which it may have to remove the infill. |
Council ruling 'draws line' on historic bridges debacle17/06/2022 National Highways has been told to reverse highly controversial works to infill a bridge in Cumbria, which it carried out under emergency powers. |
Active travel reprieve for historic rail structures17/03/2022 The Department for Transport has published a report identifying up to 50 structures on the Historical Railways Estate as potentially suitable for cycling and walking routes. |
National Highways building bridges over infill threat06/01/2022 Campaigners have welcomed ‘early signs’ that 2022 could see National Highways adopt ‘a more positive and collaborative approach’ to the Historical Railways Estate following an apparent reprieve for a bridge in East Sussex. |
Campaigners raise alarm at work on 'paused' bridge infilling programme16/12/2021 Campaigners have accused National Highways of continuing work to prepare for the demolition or infilling of historic rail bridges, despite claiming the programme has been paused. |
War of words and intentions over bridge works pause18/10/2021 A district council leader has accused National Highways of pushing ahead with plans to infill or demolish ‘much loved local landmarks’, despite the Government supposedly calling a halt to the policy. |
Controversy rumbles on over Cumbria bridge17/06/2021 The chair of the Transport Select Committee has again written to ministers over Highways England’s management of the Historical Railway Estate, seeking details of a controversial project to infill a bridge in Cumbria. |
Highways England to restore Victorian bridge10/05/2021 Highways England is to restore a disused railway bridge in Oxfordshire after plans to demolish it caused an outcry. |
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