National Highways has been told to apply for retrospective planning permission after infilling Congham bridge, above, citing a ‘public safety risk’.National Highways has been told to apply for retrospective planning permission after infilling Congham bridge, above, citing a ‘public safety risk’.A controversial practice by the government’s roads agency of burying historic railway bridges in concrete has been dealt a fresh blow after a third council intervened over another infilled structure.
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk council has told National Highways it must apply for retrospective planning permission if it wants to retain hundreds of tonnes of aggregate and concrete it used to submergeCampaigners point out that the innovative 1926 bridge is one of only three surviving examples of its precast design type in the country.
The £127,000 infilling undertaken by National Highways in 2021 also blocks a disused railway due to be repurposed as a– that scheme was backed by £657,000 in government funding this month. The decision by King’s Lynn council to intervene comes in the week that NH was due to submit planning permission toCongham bridge, west Norfolk, photographed before the railway line closed in 1959.by next October, after it failed to secure retrospective permission for the scheme following accusations of “cultural vandalism”.
A 2003 assessment by Norfolk county council said Congham bridge, which supports a little used country lane, could hold a weight of 40 tonnes. But in 2019 NH’s consultants claimed it could only support 7.5 tonnes and they used permitted development rights to temporarily infill the bridge on public safety grounds.
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