I've just read up, and looked at quite a few photo's of the collapsed portion of Chester's Roman wall.
The collapse took place just a short distance from a similar collapse of another bit of wall, perhaps due to a similar cause, 12 yrs ago.
There was also a more recent case of wall steps pulling away.
The apparent cause of Friday's collapse was the removal of supporting ground from the base of the wall - on one photo it looks like the wall "foundations" were actually undercut.
Have a look on the web at the Guardian and North Wales Post pics.
But there's years of poor walkway drainage and heavy traffic passing nearby.
The wall infill is simply soil.
I could go on to list a rake of possible contributing causes but the glaring fact is that the excavators removed supporting ground either with criminal intention or almost criminal ignorance.
The wall is a National Heritage structure protected by all kinds of Laws and Regs.
All it needed was adherence to the Laws & Regs.
Yet this was allowed to happen - some unkind people might suspect brown envelopes, not me but others might?
Residential Party Wall disputes have received better protection than the Roman Wall.
The collapse took place just a short distance from a similar collapse of another bit of wall, perhaps due to a similar cause, 12 yrs ago.
There was also a more recent case of wall steps pulling away.
The apparent cause of Friday's collapse was the removal of supporting ground from the base of the wall - on one photo it looks like the wall "foundations" were actually undercut.
Have a look on the web at the Guardian and North Wales Post pics.
But there's years of poor walkway drainage and heavy traffic passing nearby.
The wall infill is simply soil.
I could go on to list a rake of possible contributing causes but the glaring fact is that the excavators removed supporting ground either with criminal intention or almost criminal ignorance.
The wall is a National Heritage structure protected by all kinds of Laws and Regs.
All it needed was adherence to the Laws & Regs.
Yet this was allowed to happen - some unkind people might suspect brown envelopes, not me but others might?
Residential Party Wall disputes have received better protection than the Roman Wall.
