Heavy rain has led to the collapse of a stone wall in Ventnor, which has forced the closure of 1 of just 2 roads leading down to the Esplanade.
The collapse on Bath Road, just up from La Falaise car park, occurred sometime before 21:30 last night (Monday).
Island Roads has confirmed that the wall is privately owned.
The road is currently closed in both directions whilst debris is removed from the carriageway and an assessment of the remaining structure is conducted.
Access to La Falaise is from the Esplanade only.
Half of the old walls in Ventnor are on the verge of collapse. There is a wall in Bonchurch that defies gravity. I always give it a wide berth whenever I am walking down there. If the council ever got off their arses, they would be out telling people to get these hazardous walls fixed. But hey, “not my job mate” would be the reply if you asked them. Every council job spec reads: “must have ability to sit on arse, answer the phone, and say not our job mate”.
If your supposedly-idle council staff did indeed take the trouble to contact landowners, I wonder what the response would be? Possibly the same as when they are reminded of their legal duty to clear overhanging branches, shrubs etc from roads and pavements?
It’s the Great British Public which has adopted the “not my job, mate” position.
You have obviously never tried to deal with the council. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Well that’s a terrible thing to say…
Answer the phone??? The elites NEVER answer the phones and won’t allow the switchboard oiks to pass calls to them either. Whichever number you ring just gets the same switchboard crew picking up the phone pretending to be the department you thought you were ringing. Never know anything and can’t pass you to the highly paid who think they know something.
Don’t worry everyone. It’s not climate change causing all this. My mate down the pub knows, he’s on face book and clearly knows more than the whole scientific community.
As technology improves it has been proving what the “scientific community” once called facts to be inaccurate.
You are referring to a collective amount of scientists who never agree on anything, who knows what the same people will be saying in 20 years from now. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet or it makes you just as bad as your mate down the pub.
The planet is changing all the time, always has and always will….Nothing we can do about it, so the science are doing nothing bur to explain the obvious….
A cheap and environmentally friendly way of repairing this wall is to use Gabion Cages.
Why?
Because they can be filled with the original stone thus keeping the look, and preventing the time spent in taking the fallen wall away.
As no cement is needed this reduces CO2 emissions if you are bothered by such guff
The lizards of Ventnor love them and also far quicker to just clear a gap, place first cage in place and fill with scattered remains, rinse and repeat.
So IF the Council are involved they won’t e utilised
go and tell the owner then, they could use your expertise
People don’t want to know unless it is a male, with a suit or sign written van, estimating a huge cost for doing a poor job.
Let them find out the hard way, tis the only way some will learn, and some never do.
Your very sexist and do you have shares in gabion cages??
Still trying to shift those gabion cages. Gabion cages are temporary and have short lifetimes. They are also loved by rats.
The island is infested with rats, and I’m not taking about the four legged ones either…..
Tonight I tried to drive up Bath road.
The warning barriers had, of course, blown down.
So these moved. I saw that there were still stones from the wall all across the road.
BATH ROAD IS STILL CLOSED
All your below the line tittle tattle doesn’t solve that problem
Ventnor is going the same way as Blackgang, sinking into nature’s will…