MGL Demolition tackles blocks undermined by recent North East flooding.
Demolition work has begun at a block of flats left close to collapse by flooding in Newcastle. A platform has been built to allow heavy machinery to access Spencer Court in Newburn.
MGL Demolition is carrying out the work on behalf of developer Dunelm Homes. It is expected to take about two weeks.
Families were moved from their homes after the building’s foundations were washed away when a culvert collapsed on 25 September during flash floods.
An excavator with a reach of 34 metres being used to dismantle the building in a “safe and controlled way”, MGL said.
The roof of the four-floor, eight-flat complex has been removed.
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