Work to repair a broken footbridge has finally been given planning permission but construction won’t start until almost a decade after it closed. Kingsweston Iron Bridge will be dismantled, repaired and installed at a raised height to avoid being hit by yet another lorry.
The 19th-century bridge was shut by Bristol City Council in 2015, leaving walkers cut off from Kings Weston Estate and Blaise Castle Estate in northwest Bristol, after a lorry crashed into it. Then in 2018, a second lorry also collided with the bridge, causing even more damage.
Once fixed, the bridge will be installed one metre higher than it used to be, meaning new steps must be added which means it won’t be wheelchair accessible. But progress was still welcomed at the council’s development control A committee, on Wednesday, December 21.
