Belgrave Road in Ventnor will reopen on Friday (December 19)

The reopening is the culmination of weeks of repair and safety works by Island Roads on behalf of the IW Council following a major rockfall there earlier this year.

The project team, working with specialist designers and contractors, has delivered a package of measures to make the area safe and resilient. These include stabilising the cliff face (removing loose material and installing protective systems), clearing the rockfall debris, repairing retaining and parapet walls and repairing the road surface.

Project Manager Nathaniel Saunders said: “We’d like to thank the Ventnor community for its patience during these works.

“It has been a complex project given the confined nature of the site, the unstable nature of the rockface when we started and also some severe weather.

“But we are delighted to be re-opening the road ahead of the Christmas period and, once again, it’s been great to work with some excellent Isle of Wight companies,  including Stoneham Construction, CoreFIX, G Filer Engineering, Mills & Son, Nigel Early Services, Crown Park, MG Scaffolding, Wight Building Materials, JMC Hire, Reynolds & Read, to deliver a local solution.”