Telford's Southwater car park to close for a week for blaze repairs
Telford's Southwater multi-storey car park is to shut completely for a week for repairs after part of it was damaged in a blaze.
Part of the site was initially closed to shoppers following a car fire caused by an electrical fault last month.
The entire car park will be closed for one week from August 1. The first two floors will reopen on August 8 while the rest of the car park will open in the weeks that follow.
Three cars were destroyed in the blaze on June 18 and damage was caused to lighting and electrical wiring at the premises which left a number of spaces unusable.
Western Power Distribution will also be laying a new underground mains cable between Southwater One and Cineworld to the new building at the front of Meeting Point House.
This work is expected to take between three and four weeks and will see small sections of paving dug up in order to minimise disruption during the school holidays.
Telford & Wrekin Council's director of customer, neighbourhood and wellbeing services Jonathan Rowe said: "We'd like to thank people in advance for their patience while both these pieces of work take place.
"The WPD work is the laying of the electricity supply to the development at the front of Meeting Point House. This development was agreed after the original ground works for Southwater were installed.
"The multi-storey car park requires some essential works following last month's car fire before it can reopen and this will mean the car park has to close for a week to allow this to take place."
