Knutsford Road closed due to a collapse in the sewer system

There's one that looks like this on Gravel Lane, near the junction with Cottage Grove (reported to the council via FixMyStreet some time ago). It doesn't look as bad, but I think it needs to be looked at as well.

This drain was only repaired about 5 years ago, there is a stream which goes under Knutsford Road and gradually erodes the earth around the drain.

@Richard Bullock - yes the one near Cottage Grove does need looking at and I have raised it with Highways. It had already been put in the system for investigative work, but after this latest incident I have asked for it to become a priority.

There are a number of underground streams in the area so subsidence is a regular problem.

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Wow it's some emergency 3 months and counting !!!!!!!

Take your time UU. Knutsford Road is blissfully quiet without the constant stream of heavy traffic!

Just hope the working team know of the "quicksand" like substrata, more than the team who last repaired the road in the same spot a few years ago.

@ David Nelson. When I reported this "sink-hole" to CEC Highways I told them about the underground spring and running sand which is about 5m below the surface. I know about this because I talked with the then CCC geology bloke who was on site during the last but one of the previous road-closing excavations.
I have no idea if CEC Highways actually take notice of what is said by Joe Public reporting highways faults but the excavations last time were nowhere near as deep as on the two previous occasions. This will be the fourth road-closure excavation during the 30-odd years I have lived here.
To give them some credit- I told CEC that the road was in danger of collapse on a Friday and the traffic lights appeared over the week-end.
Someone else had already been told that United Utilities were to do some remedial work but that turned out to be a totally separate job, just alongside. Those folks re-made the road surface and left!

Agree with Pete Taylor above - United Utilities seem to have dug up the tarmac and dumped a load of aggregate in its place. I'm not sure that this will sort the problem - or maybe they have a 5 year budget to fix it. I reported the pavement collapsing about 6 weeks ago to CEC who said it wasn't their problem and passed it to UU, either way they haven't touched the pavement yet other than parking a mini roller on top of it!

@ Guy Spilsbury, apologies, I lost track of who had reported the footpath problem.
I wonder if CEC (after all the short-termist Kym Riley/Michael Jones cuts) have a geologist on their staff as CCC did? He gave me chapter and verse on the underlying strata of Wilmslow and Alderley and the likely future problem areas for road and building development; not unsurprisingly several of the current proposed speculative builds are on sites with compromised geology.