From the outside, Chester's controversial Dee House looks like any other abandoned building, but from the inside, it is structurally unsound, and propped up by a skeleton network of metal supports and scaffolding poles throughout. Stood on top of part of the unexcavated 55% of Briatin's biggest Roman Amphitheatre, Dee House has been a bone of contention since it was abandoned and left to rot decades ago. Calls by almost 19,000 people for the listed building's future to be publically debated with a period of public consultation, (with many wanting the building to be delisted and demolished, rebuilt elsewhere, or turned into a Jorvik style museum with underground access to the remains...) were ignored, as Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC) looked for a developer or investor to do a 150 year deal with. Many said that Dee House would need underpinning, which would damage the protected and historic Amphitheatre below, therefore efforts to repair Dee House would be in vain, but the deal came regardless in the form of the pub chain Thwaites almost a year ago, yet today the site still lays derelict and untouched, with many now asking "is Dee House simply too expensive to fix?".