Highways England may have to reverse act of ‘cultural vandalism’

Agency must apply for retrospective planning permission after infilling Victorian arch with concreteThe government’s roads agency could be forced to remove hundreds of tonnes of concrete it used to fill in a Victorian railway arch in a project that was condemned as the first act of “cultural vandalism” in a nationwide plan.Eden district council told Highways England (HE) this week that it needs to apply for retrospective planning permission for a scheme that involved pouring an