HRE Group

HRE Group

The HRE Group is an alliance of walking, cycling and heritage campaigners, civil engineers and greenway developers acting to safeguard threatened disused railway structures. Highways England, acting for the Department for Transport, has plans to demolish or infill hundreds of structures, compromising future greenway schemes by blocking or severing the routes they span or carry.

RR has sent a letter of support to the HRE Group. Graeme Bickerdike from the HRE Group has asked if the club (and individual members) could post letters of objection when (or should) further planning applications be lodged for inappropriate permanent infilling of bridges. The RR Chairman will do this and will also make individual members aware of the issue via our usual club communication channels.

This RR page is dedicated to the Press Releases and associated articles issued by the HRE Group.

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Feb 24 – Cumbrian bridge works challenged as infill removal cost is revealed

Posted: 11th Feb 2024. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: Great Musgrave bridge See More»

Dec 23 – Spring deadline to restore buried Norfolk bridge

Posted: 17th Dec 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: Bridge at Congham See More»

Oct 23 – Cumbria’s historic “overloaded” bridge to reopen without strengthening

Posted: 16th Oct 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: Bridge at Great Musgrave unfilled See More»

Sep 23 – Norfolk bridge awaits its fate after “harmful” infilling

Posted: 28th Sep 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest news on the bridge at Congham See More»

Aug 23 – Cumbrian bridge emerges from infill “vandalism”

Posted: 22nd Aug 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest news on the restoration work at Great Musgrave See More»

July 23 – “Unacceptable” bridge closure divides Cumbrian community for months

Posted: 5th Jul 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest news on the work at Great Musgrave See More»

May 23 – Opposition grows to Norfolk’s unauthorised bridge infill

Posted: 1st Jun 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest news on St Andrew’s Lane bridge at Congham, Norfolk which was infilled in 2021 See More»

May 23 – Battle stations over Norfolk’s unauthorised bridge infill

Posted: 22nd May 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest news on St Andrew’s Lane bridge at Congham, Norfolk which was infilled in 2021 See More»

Mar 2023 – “Missed opportunity” as National Highways rejects request for material from infilled bridge

Posted: 13th Mar 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: The latest around Great Musgrave See More»

Jan 2023 – Council acts as rights breached on ‘emergency’ Norfolk bridge infill

Posted: 26th Jan 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: National Highways’ strategy of using permitted development rights to carry out destructive works to historic railway structures is “unravelling” See More»

Jan 2023 – Rare Norfolk bridge lost to “destructive forces”

Posted: 12th Jan 2023. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: National Highways has “failed to fulfil its statutory obligations”, according to campaigners, after it infilled a historic bridge using permitted development rights that have now expired. See More»

Dec 2022 – Council acts as rights expire on emergency bridge infill

Posted: 20th Dec 2022. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release: National Highways has been told to apply for retrospective planning permission after failing to fulfil its statutory obligations under powers used to infill a historic railway structure. See More»

Dec 2022 – Yorkshire bridge not inspected before emergency infill scheme

Posted: 5th Dec 2022. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release on claims that a historic railway bridge had to be infilled because of a growing public safety risk despite having no recent records of its condition. See More»

Nov 2022 – Campaigners challenge ’emergency’ bridge work

Posted: 2nd Nov 2022. Category: Post/Article

HRE Group Press release on schemes to infill four historic bridges See More»

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