{"id":353499,"date":"2025-08-18T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353499\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:12:22","slug":"glencairn-residents-campaigning-to-build-community-centre-that-could-be-heartbeat-of-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353499\/","title":{"rendered":"Glencairn residents campaigning to build community centre that could be &#8216;heartbeat&#8217; of area\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018We\u2019ve been abandoned\u2026 we just want a safe place for the whole community\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chairperson of Glencairn Community Project Sonia Dickson of Glencairn Community Project helping pick litter in Glencairn estate (Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3527cc5c-4ff6-4834-88d6-b7b4dd218777.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chairperson of Glencairn Community Project Sonia Dickson of Glencairn Community Project helping pick litter in Glencairn estate (Luke Jervis\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A campaign to build a community centre for one of Belfast\u2019s \u201cforgotten\u201d estates is gathering steam with residents saying they want it to be the \u201cheartbeat\u201d of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This summer a planning application was finally submitted for a purpose-built community centre in Glencairn \u2014 a project which has already been 10 years in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve been abandoned\u2026 we just want a safe place for the whole community\u2019 Chairperson of Glencairn Community Project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6570,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-north-belfast-news","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115048293567954959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353499","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=353499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}