{"id":1144,"date":"2023-08-14T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:17:46","slug":"highways-agency-to-un-bury-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/14\/highways-agency-to-un-bury-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways Agency to un-bury bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I previously reported on an act of heritage vandalism by National Highways (the roads agency in Great Britain), which buried a former railway bridge in Cumbria in concrete &#8216;to protect it&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/aug\/14\/roads-agency-starts-to-undo-its-vandalism-of-victorian-bridge\">The Guardian<\/a> reports that the local council have refused retrospective planning permission for the action, notwithstanding the offer of a bribe by NH in the amount of \u00a3450,000 to allow their work to remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work has commenced on the un-burying of the bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously reported on an act of heritage vandalism by National Highways (the roads agency in Great Britain), which buried a former railway bridge in Cumbria in concrete &#8216;to protect it&#8217;. The Guardian reports that the local council have refused retrospective planning permission for the action, notwithstanding the offer of a bribe by NH in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}