A Bath man has been left worried for his health and his house after repairs to a Bath bridge ten years ago caused water to run into his house ever since.
Casey Nolan has lived in the “toll house” at the end of the Widcombe footbridge by Bath Spa station for the last 20 years. Though the front door and top room of the house — where once people would pay the ha’penny toll — is at bridge-level, most of the house is underneath the bridge.
The nineteenth-century footbridge had been refurbished in 2013, creating a problem of rainwater pooling up on the bridge. Further works to fix this were carried out by Bath and North East Somerset Council in 2015, with a trench drain to stop the puddles cut into the bridge — which also forms Mr Nolan’s roof.
