Keeping the rock face beautiful

The houses in terrace D at the east end of the site look out on a sandstone rockface to the north (and over the river to the south).  The problem with building houses at the bottom of a rockface is we have to ensure that residents and their visitors are not put in danger from possible rockfalls!

A common way of dealing with this is to cover the entire rockface with wire netting - not particularly attractive, as this photo from a different site shows.  Unfortunately this is the type of solution that the first contractors we asked to look at the risk proposed...  In our case the stone wall above the face would have been covered in net too.

However we now have a more acceptable proposal (below) which looks at the risk that each particular section of rock presents and uses bolts of varying lengths depending on the condition of the rock.  We are now looking to progress a solution of this type as quickly as possible, so that we can get on with building Terrace D.

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