Work to repair ‘Britain’s most damaged road’ is progressing, after a major landslip buckled a section of the B4069 in Wiltshire in February 2022.

The repair works to rebuild the road that had been left looking like a “disaster movie” began in July, since when construction has been ongoing and the council says it remains on schedule to finish and reopen the road by spring next year, although an expected date has not yet been set.

In total the scheme is expected to cost around £5 million and Wiltshire Council leader Cllr Richard Clewer explained the unusual extent of the damage had contributed to the length of the repair process, says the Swindon Advertiser.

“The road has moved about 30 or 40 metres down the hill simply because the land has given way under it, it’s surreal. This has taken a long time to do because the road has been moving for so long, over many months it continued to slide so we couldn’t start work.”

Now the ground has stopped moving and work has begun to install 100 metres of 11-metre deep pilings which will be cross-hatched to support the hill and prevent further movement.

Excavation work is currently ongoing to allow this process to take shape before the carriageway is rebuilt and reinstated.

Contractor Octavius Infrastructure is expecting significant movement on the progress of the project over the next two weeks as piling ramps up.