Exposing National Highways assault on our valuable The HRE Group 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/great_…

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. National Highways has no concept of what it took to achieve that.

@RLJ63 National Highways The HRE Group They know that every bit of evidence they're forced to release further exposes their failings. That probably *does* distress them.

Graeme Bickerdike @RLJ63 National Highways The HRE Group 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.

Graeme Bickerdike @RLJ63 National Highways The HRE Group I hope the ICO - Information Commissioner's Office 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.

The HRE Group Graeme Bickerdike National Highways 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.

Thank you - this means such a lot from a fellow bridge campaigner. Do read Zel Ouse (Hazel F-R) 🔶 #FBPPR whole thread.

Doffing my 🎩 again to Graeme Bickerdike whose tireless, meticulous work has lifted many a Victorian railway structure, myself included, out of "The Morbs" created by National Highways' infill programme. National Highways' petty refusal of his FOI request is an insult to us all.

Judging from this attitude, everything in our heritage is under threat.

Whattt?????????

More hornswoggling afoot! But this time it's my near neighbour, Barcombe's #BlackcurrantField that needs saving from ill thought-through intentions to concrete over local green spaces. Give We Won't Be Squashed We Won't Be Squashed a follow. And hats off 🎩 to their volunteers!

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.

Standing alongside you, BB.

#Barcombe once again showing it's a village not to be messed with - 🎩s off to the campaigners fighting to save the #BlackcurrantField near to the dismantled railway wildlife corridor I span.