National Highways to be forced to remove 1,644 tonnes of gravel and concrete used to infill bridge arch
The government’s road agency will be forced to remove hundreds of tonnes of concrete it used to bury a Victorian bridge arch, despite offering a £450,000 sweetener to allow the controversial scheme to stay.
Eden district council’s planning committee resisted the offer by unanimously deciding to refuse National Highways (NH) retrospective planning permission for a crude infilling project at Great Musgrave, Cumbria that was widely condemned as “cultural vandalism”.
