CONTRACTORS are set to make a start on restoring Tenbury's Market Street highway retaining wall on Monday.

Work is expected to cost £250,000 and take up to six months.

But the county council engineer in charge would like to see it completed by Christmas.

The wall was swept away in last summer's horrific floods along with the town's toilets, shortly to be rebuilt.

Senior project engineer Glenn Lucitt said: "It is hoped to contain work to weekdays and where traffic lights are not needed they will be taken down. We will keep a watchful eye on traffic flow and aim to keep traffic distruption to a minimum."

He told Tenbury Wells town councillors at Monday's meeting that the Old Cattle Market site was the most likely place to be used as a depot by contractors Alun Griffiths.

Councillor Jo Watson pointed out that the wall was not a flood defence and urged that the council should continue to seek funding from Advantage West Midlands.

Also present at the meeting was county councillor Derek Prodger, cabinet member for the environment, who said: "The surges of water last summer overwhelmed the drainage systems in a number of towns but we have found no serious collapses in Tenbury."