Your news item last week (Chronicle, October 19) on the North Walls work was, as ever, informative and accurate. 

However, your readers may be interested to know, also, who is paying for all this work. 

No, it is not the city council, nor the county council, nor Historic England. 

All of those bodies have given advice, guidance and regulation. 

But the people who are paying are the 46 owners of the properties comprising Marston Gate.

The cost is a quarter of a million pounds, so this works out that each of the owners has stumped up £5,000. 

A lot of money in these hard-pressed times, but we have to look after our much-loved, historic city. 

Don Reynolds,
Marston Gate,
Winchester

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