Gas works in Lower Watergate Street, Chester, due to start on January 18

Jan 14 2010 Chester Chronicle

WORK begins on Monday, January 18 – not January 11 as previously reported – to renew an essential gas main in Chester’s Lower Watergate Street – the latest phase of the city’s £20m renewal programme driven by the Health and Safety Executive.

While work is under way, Lower Watergate Street will be closed from the Inner Ring Road (St Martin’s Way/Nicholas Street) to Watergate Street Car Park for six weeks and traffic will be diverted via Deva Link and Parkgate Road.

Realising the impact a six-week closure of Lower Watergate Street would have on businesses, residents and commuters, the council and North West Gas Alliance engineers coordinated other works with the closure.

As a result not only will the gas main be replaced, the following will take place at the same time:

Welsh Water will renew their manhole covers in the carriageway.

A local property company will erect a scaffold to carry out maintenance and redecoration work to their property at 88-90 Lower Watergate Street.

Chester Racecourse Developments have arranged for new services to their development at Linen Hall to be taken off the main services in Lower Watergate Street.

Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC) highways department will reconstruct the carriageway, renew damaged kerbs and carry out maintenance works to damaged areas of the footway.