Retailers on Welsh Row have forced United Utilities to postpone planned sewer works – due to start on the first day of the Nantwich Food and Drink Festival.

The water company wants to carry out “urgent” repairs to a collapsed sewer under a section of the busy street.

Engineers delivered letters (pictured) to stunned retail owners who alerted them to the food festival, which pulls in around 30,000 visitors to the town.

Louise Bastow, director of Cheshire Cat and Firenze on Welsh Row, said: “They hand delivered a letter to us earlier in the week saying they were going to start this weekend.

“But that would have been a nightmare for the Food Festival, so we managed to get them to postpone to the following weekend.

“It just seems Nantwich is covered in roadworks at the moment!”

The works are now set to be carried out over the next three weekends starting on September 13, but will lead to major traffic queues.

They want to dig under between 27 and 29 Welsh Row, and close one lane at a time during the works.

Work will involve replacing a long eight-metre section of sewer. There will be traffic control operating a “stop and go” system.

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