Collapsed river bank to get £360k stabilisation works this summer

STABILISATION work on a collapsing river bank is due to start this summer.

- By LAUREN MONAGHAN

Mansfield District Council this week approved the £360,000 project for a stretch of the River Meden, in Warsop.

A section of the embankment collapsed in the winter of 2020 after heavy rainfall. The affected part is about 20 metres away from The Willows - a council-run retirement housing in Church Street - and council-owned flats in River View.

Bags of gravel were put at the base of the collapse as a temporary emergency measure, but these have since washed away.

Paul Charlton, a design services officer at the council, told councillors work should start in June or July.