King's Lynn: Anger mounts over filling in of Congham Bridge
Opposition is mounting to the filling in of a disused railway bridge described as "wanton vandalism".
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Opposition is mounting to the filling in of a disused railway bridge described as "wanton vandalism".
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A farmer faces losing access to a chunk of his land under plans by highways bosses to fill in an old railway bridge he uses for access. The scheme would split Iain Gow’s land ‘in two’ – leaving part of it with ‘completely no access at all’. Government-owned Highways England plans to fill in 69 old bridges it claims are unsafe over the next five years but has refused to reveal which are on its hit list. Iain Gow, a retired university lecturer and smallholder whose 11-acre farm is set to be split in half by Highways England's plans to fill in an old rail bridge