Watch: Why it's 'time to draw a line in the sand' on town walls that collapsed over a decade ago
Civic action could be the key to saving taxpayers from having to foot the enormous bill to repair a market town's collapsed medieval wall.
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That's the view of the new chairman of the Ludlow Town Walls Trust (LTWT) who is determined to use the collapse more than a decade ago in 2013 as a positive motivation.
Colin Richards MBE, is a renowned expert in historic buildings and believes the community has the resources and skills to get the job done.
Mr Richards says he recognises the pressures on local government finance and on taxpayers of the costs, which have most recently been estimated in excess of £3 million.
Mr Richards says he thinks the community has the "talent to bring to the project" and the trust will "try to get external funding for the repairs".
But more than that he sees it as an opportunity in education, training and to shine a light on the positive aspects of Ludlow.
In this way he says the repair of the 13th century section of walls need not be a "burden on the taxpayers".
The collapse of the walls has also meant the community has lost a garden of rest for more than a decade.
