{"id":25193,"date":"2020-01-28T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25193"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:37:37","slug":"investigation-into-roman-wall-collapse-on-chester-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25193","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into Roman wall collapse on Chester site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25194\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Construction_Manager_roman_wall_280120-241x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/>Investigations have begun into what caused part of Chester\u2019s Roman city wall to collapse during construction work.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Construction Manager Magazine writes:<\/p>\n<p>The section of the ancient\u00a0structure adjoins the site of a new aparthotel development.<\/p>\n<p>Cheshire West and Chester Council said that the collapse on Friday last week had occurred following excavations by a private developer, thought to be Liverpool-based Walker and Williams.<\/p>\n<p>A council spokesperson said: \u201cInvestigations are continuing to establish the exact reasons for the collapse, but early indications appear to show that earth had been removed from the bottom of the city walls behind 15 to 19 Newgate Street (near to the wall walkway leading out of the Grosvenor Shopping Centre).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe removal of too much earth exposed a section of bare foundations. The developer has now stopped the works within their site, to enable further assessments to be undertaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Karen Shore, deputy leader and cabinet member for Environment, Highways and Strategic Transport, said: \u201cThe council is taking this situation very seriously and we will ensure that a thorough investigation is carried out. I am thankful that no-one has been hurt as a result of this collapse and our priority will continue to be public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developer Max Williams said: \u201cWe are so thankful that nobody was hurt in the collapse\u00a0on Thursday night\u00a0but are greatly saddened by what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will support the council where ever we can to get the wall sympathetically restored and made safe for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologise to the people of Chester for any distress this has caused them but would kindly ask them to wait for the facts to become clear before making a judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionmanagermagazine.com\/news\/investigations-roman-wall-collapse-chester-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations have begun into what caused part of Chester\u2019s Roman city wall to collapse during construction work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}