THE infirmary may be rather old and could be costly to update/ refurbish but who could possibly consider moving facilities to such an area as Weaver Square in the town centre, with its four bridge access and shortage of parking space?
All we hear is ‘cost effective’. If a move is necessary, find the money.
Now ‘due to salt extraction and adjacent location of a freight railway line, Victoria Infirmary also suffers form subsidence’ .
I have roamed and walked these areas most of my life. Now who would seek salt beds at the top of steep hills, where it was known to be deposited in two river valleys?
The subsidence may have occurred when the Roman remains were removed from the area near to the Sir John Brunner pub.
The railway line, I believe was built in the early 1920s, but ceased in 2014. It brought great wealth to Northwich. For information I have only seen, apart from works traffic, surveillance and maintenance vehicles on the line.
When Castleton Slopes were completed, that had been a wildly, overgrown area. There was a ravine to the park gates at the bottom of Castle Hill. In the centre, what appeared to be a large pit. Sorry, no salt – only sand.
Denis Cain Greenbank
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