Planning to watch the Ironbridge Cooling Towers demolition? What you need to know

The demolition of the Ironbridge Power Station cooling towers will take place on Friday morning.

The demolition by developer Harworth is scheduled for around 11am.

The site is in the Shropshire Council area, while many of the best vantage points to view this from are in Telford and Wrekin.

It is a condition of the legal demolition notice that Harworth has a traffic management plan to support the demolition happening as safely and in as managed a way as possible.

The traffic management plan, conditions for which have been set by Shropshire Council, is to support and keep people out of the 350m exclusion around the demolition site, reduce any conflict between vehicles and pedestrians and avoid traffic congestion and parking problems in the Gorge, particularly on a small number of narrow and steep minor roads close to the demolition.

The Council expects any traffic restrictions to stay in place until the all-clear around one hour after the demolition.

The safest place to view the demolition will be online. Ironbridge will be open for business as usual and you’ll be able to walk most places as normal too, including those roads that are closed on the hillside.
 
The livestream link is here.