National Highways may be ordered to remove its structural infill from a 19th century North Yorkshire bridge after the local authority requested retrospective planning application.
The Rudgate road bridge, situated approximately 3km west of Tadcaster, is part of the Historical Railways Estate (HRE), which is maintained by National Highways on behalf…
A community interest company (CIC) in Northumberland has leased a section of disused railway to make it an active travel path after the 19th century bridges on the route were prevented from being infilled.
Borderline Greenway CIC has signed a 25-year lease with landowner Northumberland Estates for a 2.9km route that…
National Highways has revealed that it spent £352,000 removing the unwanted infill from beneath the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria – almost triple what it cost to install.
The infilling of the 8.4m single span masonry arch bridge with around 1,000t of concrete was carried out by between May and July…
National Highways has completed the removal of infill from beneath the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria but there will be no additional strengthening or weight restrictions implemented before it reopens, despite the roads body's previous claims.
The public roads body was ordered to remove the 1,000t of concrete from beneath the…
National Highways will be ordered remove the concrete infill from beneath a 100-year-old bridge in Congham after its retroactive planning application was unanimously rejected by the local borough council.
St Andrew’s Lane Bridge in Congham was infilled in 2021 with around 1,000t of concrete for a cost of £127,000 by the…
Civil engineering firm Hammond ECS has completed maintenance works on the Grade II listed Pensford Viaduct in Somerset on behalf of National Highways.
The 304m long viaduct was originally opened in 1873 to carry the Bristol & North Somerset Railway over Chew Valley. Constructed in stone, it is made up of…
The Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk planning committee has recommended National Highways’ retrospective application for its 1,000t of infill of the 100-year-old Congham Bridge be refused.
This means the roads operator will possibly be made to remove the concrete from beneath the bridge in a timely and costly…
A consortium of contractors responsible for the repair and maintenance of the Historical Railways Estate (HRE) has “risen” to the challenge, according to National Highways.
Contractors Amco Giffen, Balfour Beatty, Beaver Bridges, Bethell, Dyer & Butler and ECS have been conducting a maintenance and repair programme of 265 works over the…
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