{"id":256908,"date":"2025-07-11T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256908\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:01:11","slug":"latest-from-hotspur-press-as-demolition-work-scheduled-over-weekend-following-devastating-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256908\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest from Hotspur press as demolition work scheduled over weekend following devastating fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mill destroyed in a devastating fire\"HotspurDemolition work set to be carried out at Hotspur Press(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Demolition work is scheduled to be carried out at the fire-ravaged Hotspur Press building in Manchester city centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The historic mill, believed to be among the oldest in Manchester with parts dating to the 1790s, was heavily damaged when an enormous blaze broke out on June 23.<\/p>\n

More than 100 people had to be evacuated from buildings nearby, with smoke being visible for miles.<\/p>\n

Following the fire, an order for emergency demolition work was put in place.<\/p>\n

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Work is set to be carried out over the weekend, beginning on Saturday night into Sunday morning, to minimise disruption to the train line running past it.<\/p>\n

The Manchester Evening News visited the site on Friday (July 11). Machines were in place as workers prepared.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for MCR Property Group, which own the building, was present at the site.<\/p>\n

(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The firm said: “We’ve done a clean up process and there’s the sections that have been taken out.<\/p>\n

“It’s all part of the of controlled works that we have been told to carry out. That’s happening on Saturday night and Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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“All the local shops have been notified of the works, the police are on standby to make sure that nobody enters.”<\/p>\n

They added: “Currently we are doing the works we’ve been instructed to do to make it safe, which is the priority. Then we will take it from there.”<\/p>\n

The fire has renewed controversy over why the building was not listed after culture secretary Lisa Nandy rejected a recommendation by Historic England to list the building.<\/p>\n

Three heritage groups including SAVE Britain’s Heritage have submitted a Freedom of Information request<\/a> demanding an explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mill destroyed in a devastating fireDemolition work set to be carried out at Hotspur Press(Image: Sean Hansford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,12264,4884,2465,8086,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-256908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836149647318270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}