Bath and North East Somerset Council has announced when a new footbridge in Keynsham should be completed. The footbridge over the weir in Keynsham Park has been closed since October 2019 but new steps have been made towards the re-opening of the key route.
It was closed in 2019 after an inspection found it was unsafe for public use due to what the council described as "deterioration of the timber glulam beams forming the superstructure". Years later it remains closed and frustration has grown among locals about the lack of progress made since then.
Further investigations in 2020 discovered that the bridge was beyond repair and the most efficient way forward was to install a new bridge. £750,000 was set aside for the project from the 2022/23 budget.
