{"id":4238,"date":"2019-03-22T08:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:26:33","slug":"eric-wright-wins-pooley-replacement-bridge-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/eric-wright-wins-pooley-replacement-bridge-in-cumbria\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Wright wins Pooley replacement bridge in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Wright’s civil engineering business has landed the job to build a new Pooley Bridge in Cumbria after the original was washed away by flood water during Storm Desmond in December 2015.<\/p>\n

The final design is innovative and is the only single span bridge of this type in the country.<\/p>\n

Work on the \u00a35m project is scheduled to start on site in May, with a target completion date around late Spring \/ early Summer 2020.<\/p>\n

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Cllr Keith Little, Cumbria County Council Cabinet member for Highways and Transport, said: \u201cThe design is outstanding and I am looking forward to the day when we officially open it and allow this community to truly get back to their day to day business.”<\/p>\n

Diane Bourne, managing\u00a0director for Eric Wright Civil Engineering added: \u201cWe\u2019ve been working closely with Cumbria County Council on the design for the new bridge for the last 12 months and we are delighted to also be appointed for the construction phase.<\/p>\n

“Our team has a great deal of experience in bridge design and construction and we will ensure that the new Pooley Bridge, not only provides resilience against extreme bad weather in the future, but that it continues to connect the community for generations to come. \u201d<\/p>\n

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Eric Wright’s civil engineering business has landed the job to build a new Pooley Bridge in Cumbria after the original was washed away by flood water during Storm Desmond in December 2015. The final design is innovative and is the only single span bridge of this type in the country. Work on the \u00a35m project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}