Rubble falls into road as crowds flock to see Beatles mural.
Fears have been raised about safety around the demolition of a former grain silo in Liverpool.
The building on Great Howard Street is in the process of being knocked down by Harcourt Developments – the firm behind the transformation of the nearby Tobacco Warehouse at Stanley Dock. DemolitionNews understands that the demolition work is being carried out by the Hancock Group.
The company says “everything was going to plan”. But one nearby business expressed concerns about the amount of rubble falling into the road; while a team working on roadworks near the site said they had had to move further down the road because of the danger of falling debris.
Photographs published by the Liverpool Echo appear to show painfully inadequate protective measures constructed from wood.
A spokesperson for the Five Star Car Wash: “Someone is going to be killed – there is rubble all falling into the road.”
However Paul Manning, of Harcourt Developments, said that any road closures have been put in place by the council and demolition work is “going to plan”. “There are sheets up to try and stop rubble going on the road but we will look at this,” he says. “We are aiming to have finished the work in one week however we have to be conscious as there have been a lot of people coming to see The Beatles ‘Fixing a Hole’ artwork and there were 1,500 people at a conference in the Titanic Hotel too.”
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