Part of Queen Anne Terrace Car Park in Cambridge has been closed since before Christmas after a faulty sprinkler left the basement floor flooded.
The freezing weather conditions before Christmas caused the car park’s sprinkler systems to freeze and sprinkler heads to “pop off” leaving them damaged, and the basement level closed from that point onwards.
Engineers have been called out to the system, but Cambridge City Council’s head of parking services, Paul Necus, says it is unlikely they will be fixed until Tuesday next week (January 4).
Mr Necus said: “The basement level at Queen Anne Terrace is closed for safety reasons following the breakdown of the sprinkler system in that area.
“The water in the sprinkler system froze on December 23, and popped the heads off some of the sprinklers, causing the flooding. So we’ve had to turn the water supply off until the system thawed out.
“We’re waiting to replace the damaged sprinkler heads and for engineers to get the system up and running again so we can reopen the basement as soon as possible.”
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