A city council has said that work to restore a historic pier, badly damaged by strong waves and stormy weather, has "not gone according to plan".
The eastern section of West Hoe Pier in Plymouth collapsed during Storm Bram in December 2025 while undergoing strengthening work to infill the interior, after stones within it had been washed out to sea over many years.
Plymouth City Council said the project to restore the Grade II listed pier was getting "back on track" following the incident, and that winter "is very much on our mind".
It said a wet winter, with the El Niño weather pattern forecast, was "not an issue", but warned high winds could be "troublesome".
The council said the pier, built in the 1880s, had been subject to many repairs due to storm damage.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service previously reported that the emergency repair work caused by Storm Bram, which involved pouring about 300 tonnes (300,000kg) of concrete into the pier to close the large hole, would total about £1 million.
Over the summer, the council said it had been pointing the outer walls to make them stronger, along with extensive investigations of past remediation, including site sampling.
The authority said a 2019 investigation showed a "degradation of material" and, although some "may have stabilised", it needed to find out the full extent.
The expanding grout material was excavated to the fracture line, which it said was "very hard" as it was about "three times stronger than standard concrete".
That difficulty "delayed the process which left us exposed to the winter storms", it added.
The council said the "immediate intention" was to complete the pointing works, utilising the late large spring tides, for further sampling and stabilising the stone reveals "to be as ready for the winter weather as we can be".
It said there was "no intention to work through the winter".
Other planned works included dismantling and reconstructing face stonework in three areas, reinstating masonry, reconstructing existing stone steps, using modern inert grout at lower levels and fibre-reinforced concrete infill at higher levels to stabilise the pier core.
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Historic Pier Repairs Not Going to Plan, Council Says