Works start on Chester City Walls Collapse Site

Cheshire West and Chester Council's contractors will commence work next week on the site of the section of Chester City Walls at Newgate Street that collapsed in 2020.

Councillor Karen Shore, Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Transport said:

"For reasons beyond the control of the Council, repairs have not been progressed as quickly as I would have liked, however this is a significant capital scheme involving a scheduled ancient monument that has required a great deal of planning with our heritage engineers, project managers, contractors and insurers, together with a great deal of technical work required to overcome the challenges of accessing such a constrained site and to obtain the relevant consents from English Heritage.

“The last of those challenges has now been overcome and I look forward to seeing the scheme progress.”