Cheshire West and Chester Council has announced repair work is to start at St Oswald's Church in Malpas.

Following the collapse of the church wall the Council arranged for the temporary repair of the wall to make it safe. Since then work has been undertaken to allow a permanent repair of the wall to take place.

The work will begin on Monday 15 August.

The Council's Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Strategic Transport, Councillor Karen Shore said: "Starting quotation marksI am pleased to be able to confirm that the preparatory work is now complete, the design of the repair has been finalised, all approvals have been secured, and work to permanently repair the wall is due to start Monday, 15 August."

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The contractors carrying out the repairs have permission to work Monday to Saturday starting at 8am at the earliest and finishing no later than 5pm.

The wall repair works will not require any road closures initially. However, it will become necessary later as the work progresses, to protect the public and the workforce, for a closure to be put in place on Church Street.

The works are expected to be finished by autumn 2022. This is subject to there being no unexpected disruptions to the work.