Chatsworth behind the scenes guided tour of the Cascade regeneration project

Transcript

00:00 If you can just tell me who you are and why we're here at the Cascade.

00:04 Hi I'm Rob Harrison, I'm Head of Operations here at Chatsworth House.

00:08 We're stood in front of the Cascade here in the gardens.

00:11 We've got some major issues really with its structure.

00:14 We've got serious deterioration of the bed and the stone.

00:17 We've got water that's not running over it, it's running under it unfortunately.

00:21 So we're looking at a project which we've been awarded the first development phase funding from the NLHF

00:26 to look at what the project really needs to be done, what work we need to do to the Cascade.

00:31 So ultimately the project involves many different work streams.

00:35 The one that I'm working on is the capital works, the actual physical works to repair the Cascade.

00:41 Understand what we need to do.

00:43 We're going to further do some intrusive surveys and investigations under the stone

00:47 to look at what work's been done over the years.

00:51 This summer hopefully you see exactly what you see here today.

00:55 Hopefully nothing any different.

00:57 It will be over the next two, maybe even three years, where we undertake more intrusive works.

01:03 Probably taking some of the stone out and repairing it and replacing it.

01:07 Hopefully when we've finished you won't notice anything different.