Knight Architects’ stainless-steel bridge opens in Lake District
10 December 2020 By Fran Williams. Photography by Tom McNally
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The 55m-long crossing – the UK’s first stainless-steel road bridge – replaces a 250-year-old three-span stone arch bridge, destroyed by flooding five years ago
The crossing straddles the River Eamont at Pooley Bridge at the Lake District s north-eastern gate. It replaces the historic 18th-century stone arch Pooley Bridge, the village’s namesake, which was destroyed during Storm Desmond in December 2015. A temporary bridge has been in place since March 2016.
Plans have been approved, in spite of a number of objections, for a 15m-high telecommunications mast near Haweswater in the Lake District. The mast, which will be constructed adjacent to Lakeside Road, will be for the exclusive use of bolstering the communications network used by the emergency services. The mast will form part of the new Emergency Services Network (ESN), which will replace the Airwave system currently in use. Objections were raised to the plans, which were drawn up by the Home Office, from a number of individuals and organisations, including Shap Parish Council, Friends of the Lake District, the Mardale Commoners Association and the RSPB.