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Jan 2024
Knaresborough roadworks to resume for 10 weeks on Monday
Traffic lights will return to a main road in Knaresborough for 10 weeks from tomorrow (January 8).
The lights will enable the next phase of a £200,000 scheme to repair and maintain the wall on Briggate to take place.
A section of the wall collapsed on to the road on September 14. Nobody was hurt but the rubble remained on the carriageway for almost three months.
Traffic lights were put up and North Yorkshire Council, which had been warned about the state of the wall multiple times in the run-up to the incident, finally began repairs on November 27.
Karl Battersby, the council’s corporate director for environment, said in November some cellars belonging to residents had been impacted by the collapsed wall and consequently the “works are now more complex than first anticipated”.
Work paused before Christmas when the first phase of repairs finished.
Now the next phase is set to begin. The council posted on social media yesterday:
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