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Consequence of not paying a £50 annual rent allegedly caused £7.3 million of damage for Queensbury Tunnel

    Simon Gent
    By Simon Gent Replies (1)

    England's National Highways has to spend £7.3 million for works in the disused 1.4 mile long Queensbury Tunnel, instead of £550,000 it would cost, should the tunnel had not been flooded.

    And why did it flood? Because, allegedly, National Highways failed to pay the £50 annual rent on a pumping station which kept the tunnel dewatered.

    Now the Queensbury Tunnel Society is running a campaign to save the tunnel and repurpose it instead of National Highways' plans to partially infill it.

    https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19907728.campaigners-hit-controversial-queensbury-tunnel-works/

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