Kent County Council (KCC) has reached a major milestone in its plans to reopen the Road of Remembrance in Folkestone with works to stabilise the cliff now underway.
The historic route has been closed for more than two years after a landslip buried the road under soil and trees. The scale of the project has presented a complex engineering and heritage challenge. KCC engineers have worked through a range of issues including unstable geology, further landslips, protected species, and the discovery of historic wartime infrastructure within the cliff.
Now, with contractors mobilised, it is one step closer to delivering a long-term solution. Work started on Monday 18 May and should take around 44 weeks. So far, engineers have begun removing the hedgerows and root balls of the trees that have collapsed. They will then start drilling more than a thousand holes for soil nails which will go through the rock to stabilise the cliff and prevent future movement.