Specialist engineers employed by Forestry Commission Wales will begin work early next month to finally resolve a landslip problem which has caused great concern to people living in Tintern.

FC Wales has obtained planning permission from Monmouthshire County Council to carry out major work to stabilise land at Barbadoes wood in the Wye Valley and finally end the uncertainty since a landslide first happened in February 2007.

The Commission, which manages most of the unstable woodland above the village of Tintern, has appointed Dean & Dyball Engineering to carry out the work, which is expected to be completed in June 2009 at a cost £1.5 million.

For more on this news story, see The Monmouthshire Beacon issue dated December 3rd.