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30 June 2024
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Council resolves to demolish Chinamans Bridge

GOT TO GO: “Yes, it will be sad to see the end of an era for this bridge,” council administrator Peter Stephenson said at last week’s council meeting. “But given the economic impacts, the risk to life, the economics of trying to fix it, it has got to come down; we need to move on."

STRATHBOGIE Shire Council last week resolved to demolish one of Victoria’s oldest timber bridges, the heritage-listed Chinamans Bridge in Nagambie, which is believed to have been constructed in 1891.

But the severely damaged bridge will continue to languish as council applies for a demolition permit from Heritage Victoria and advocates to the state and federal governments for funds to demolish ...

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