York Street Retaining Wall, Stourport-on-Severn
Client: Worcestershire County Council
Consulting Engineer: Halcrow Group
Value: £164,000
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York Street retaining wall was built at the same time as the canals at Stourport on Severn, is a grade 2 listed wall and retains the A451 3 metres above the Stourport Basin.
An 80m length wall was in danger of collapsing into the basin and on to buildings within the basin. This was remedied as follows:
- all old brickwork above footpath level was removed, cleaned and stored for relaying
- a row of in situ reinforced concrete bored piles were cast in the main road 2m from the wall.
- avoiding all the footpath services we carefully excavated in 2 metre cells between the piles and the wall down 3 metres to wall foundation level and backfilled carefully with 2 metres of mass concrete
- we then backfilled, reinstated the kerbs, footpath and part of the road before rebuilding the wall using lime mortar and to match the original features
