Land slip at Soot Hill, Northwich
Timeline for Soot Hill
December 2023
Completion
Autumn/winter 2023
Highway construction works
Late summer to autumn
Retaining wall parapet works
Early summer to autumn
Secure existing wall/drainage works
March 2023
Site set-up begins, cones on carriageway to stop parking
Cabins powered up / health and safety training / inductions
Main works begin, site clearance, create site access and utility trial holes
February 2023
Council Cabinet Paper decision and approval
November 2022
BT to attend site to divert their cabling
Contractor to obtain prices for the repair work required from their supply chain
Contractor to submit confirmed costings to the Council
October 2022
Completion of calculations and drawings for repair works by consultant engineers
- Status: In progress
September 2022
United Utilities - cast iron water main diverted
- Status: Complete
Scottish Power on site diverting live voltage cabling
- Status: Complete
Geotechnical engineers complete report showing analysis of ground investigations
- Status: Complete
July 2022
Signed contract with contractor to develop detailed solutions and costings to repair the landslip
- Status: Complete
Commissioned consultant engineers to design repair options
- Status: Complete
Weekly meetings with both contractors begin
- Status: Complete
June 2022
Ground investigation works - bore holes drilled to a depth of 20 metres to find out what material is underneath the site
- Status: Complete
May 2022
Liaison with utility companies to ascertain prices for diverting cables and piping to allow repairs to progress
- Status: Complete
Ground penetrating radar surveys undertaken to determine the exact locations of all utilities on the site
- Status: Complete
April 2022
Anchor blocks installed at either side of the collapsed section to create a temporary cable bridge for high voltage cables
- Status: Complete
Cranes remove large concrete slabs that were previously either side of the collapsed section
- Status: Complete
March 2022
Propped adjacent building for safety reasons
- Status: Complete
Contractor commissioned to produce a feasibility report for the repairs
- Status: Complete
December 2021
Landslip occurred on 28 December 2021 - road closed and signage erected
- Status: Complete
3D laser scans of the landslip and adjacent building completed
- Status: Complete