In Victorian days I spanned the Bluebell Railway. Now I'm a crucial bridge across a wildlife corridor. Yet National Highways wants to bury me in concrete. Pah!
Sussex, England
Joined October 2021
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Standing alongside you, BB.
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Events today at #Barcombe demonstrate that the fight to secure the future of this valued community asset - and dozens of others - will not be over until works to sensitively repair it are confirmed and delivered.
The need to rebuild trust with communities is clear and urgent.
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I hope the @ICOnews are following this one, because it’s a big-ticket example of a public body abusing the rules having been caught out by a campaign group who pursued the truth and found it to be an uncomfortable one. Significant public and media interest already established.
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I’m still trying to reconcile the term ‘distress’ as used, with a public body. The whole *purpose* of FOI is to force disclosure of things which a body might otherwise try to keep quiet, to cover laziness, malpractice, misfeasance or other impropriety. They just don’t like you.
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Thank you - this means such a lot from a fellow bridge campaigner.
Do read @zel_ouse whole thread.
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Appalling as @NationalHways & their response to perfectly legitimate requests are, it does show that they are rattled by the @theHREgroup's scrutiny. A competent organisation wouldn't warrant such scrutiny in the first place!
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Successful campaigning is never easy or half-hearted.
Ours resulted in the Government halting a public body's works programme and a notable planning victory, whilst the civil engineering profession stood alongside us.
@NationalHways has no concept of what it took to achieve that.
Exposing @NationalHways assault on our valuable @theHREgroup assets has demanded time, energy and determination.
This defamatory personal attack, published in rebuttal of an FoI request, reveals much about the company’s culture.
It will not be challenged.
whatdotheyknow.com/request/g…
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Exposing @NationalHways assault on our valuable @theHREgroup assets has demanded time, energy and determination.
This defamatory personal attack, published in rebuttal of an FoI request, reveals much about the company’s culture.
It will not be challenged.
whatdotheyknow.com/request/g…
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They know that every bit of evidence they're forced to release further exposes their failings. That probably *does* distress them.
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There is public interest in this information. A huge amount of taxpayers' money has been expended on a project which damages a historical structure and the prospects for active travel, for unconvincing reasons. I have therefore submitted the same request.
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Given that their justifications for refusal are so personal, what would happen if someone other than you filed an identical FoI request?
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Just because you don't agree with someone @NationalHways doesn't make them wrong. Graeme has worked tirelessly, diligently & professionally at all times because you need to be held to account for your incompetent actions. Your answer is a personal attack? Shame on you 😡
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Over 160 years, the structure became woven into the fabric of the community - valued as part of its history and landscape. Then one day @NationalHways turned up and erased it without a word to anyone. How shabby was that act? How arrogant is that culture?
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Is this a voucher for pore-cleansing treatment?
So this is @EdenCouncil Note of Decision for the #GreatMusgraveBridge planning application.
Nice to see it in black and white.
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Is my stonework going to be wrapped in gold leaf?
Here's @Robbiehorgs @ncedigital review of the #GreatMusgraveBridge fiasco.
After £124K was spent infilling a bridge that was absolutely fine, @NationalHways now claims that it could cost £431K to put things right.
At least we know where the surviving Chuckle Brother now works.
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What was being smoked at the meeting when @NationalHways decided to commit £450K of *our* money to repair property for which it has no responsibility *IF* @EdenCouncil approved its planning application for the infilling of #GreatMusgraveBridge?
#TastySweetener
#NoMoralCompass
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"Small and discreet change"? In much the same way as Brian Blessed is a small and discreet man!
Great story in the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald reporting @NationalHways Helene Rossiter describing the infilling of #GreatMusgraveBridge as "significant works" which resulted in only a "small and discreet change"!
Should have gone to Specsavers!
cwherald.com/news/450000-bil…
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Great story in the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald reporting @NationalHways Helene Rossiter describing the infilling of #GreatMusgraveBridge as "significant works" which resulted in only a "small and discreet change"!
Should have gone to Specsavers!
cwherald.com/news/450000-bil…
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Dismantled railways often play a vital role as 'wildlife corridors', but @NationalHways remains in a state of denial despite a wealth of evidence. The term didn't appear in its #GreatMusgraveBridge ecology report.
Please support this petition and help make the point.
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