A section of Chester's walls collapsed after digging work by developers more than four years ago.
Repair work to part of a city's historical walls, which collapsed during digging work by developers, is set to start more than four years after the section crumbled.
Cheshire West and Chester Council said work would begin on Chester's famous walls from Monday after an area collapsed in January 2020.The collapse took place behind Newgate Street near to the walkway leading from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre and not far from the iconic Eastgate clock.Deputy council leader Karen Shore said: "For reasons beyond the control of the council, repairs have not been progressed as quickly as I would have liked.
The cabinet member for environment, highways and transport added the repair work was a "significant capital scheme involving a scheduled ancient monument that has required a great deal of planning with our heritage engineers". She said a "great deal" of technical work was needed to "overcome the challenges of accessing such a constrained site and to obtain the relevant consents from English Heritage".Chester is the only city in the UK with a complete circuit of walls still in place, they form a two mile circuit around the centre
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