Residents voice anger over paying for Cliff Railway wall repairs
Residents in Bridgnorth have taken to social media to voice their concerns over being asked to pay for the £750,000 repair bill to fix the damaged retaining wall that crippled the town's Cliff Railway.
Council taxpayers in the market town are currently being consulted by Bridgnorth Town Council on whether the authority should get a government loan to pay for the wall.
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway was closed on health and safety grounds a year ago this week, after the discovery of a damaged retaining wall.
Bridgnorth Town Council, who had liability for the wall, had to repair a 65-metre section of it.
Due to the emergency nature and health and safety risk posed by the damaged wall, the town council said they had to get in specialists that had conducted such work before, but the £750,000 cost far exceeds the authority's financial reserves.
