The cost of repairs to a section of Exeter’s ancient city wall that collapsed alongside the City Gate Hotel more than five years ago has risen to £585,000.
The council was forced to amend the scheme after receiving £1,000,000 quotes for the work – double the allocated budget.
Exeter’s ancient city wall appears on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, which describes its condition as “generally satisfactory but with minor localised problems” and says its “principal vulnerability” is “plant growth”.
Exeter Civic Society says that the register’s assessment significantly “underplays the problems” with the wall.
