Northumberland County Council has estimated it will spend £3.5m repairing a road that suffered a landslip last year.
An embankment on the B6343 Mitford Road in Morpeth failed following heavy rains during Storm Babet, which struck the UK in October 2023.
A ‘major engineering project’ to fix the road will begin at the end of the year and continue into 2025, with an update, including on road closures, due once planning is complete and a contractor is appointed.
The council said it was working to reduce the cost of the repairs.
Council leader Glen Sanderson said: ‘Recent bad weather has cost the county council millions in landslips and this is another example of us having to find extra money again, but we have to do it for everyone's safety.’
