{"id":400963,"date":"2025-09-05T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:21:27","slug":"repairs-on-collapsed-leeds-kirkgate-building-to-begin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400963\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairs on collapsed Leeds Kirkgate building to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December, the council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cevg94xe7zyo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">served an urgent works notice on the owner<\/a> of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It meant the council could carry out the repairs itself and reclaim the cost if they did not take action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council report said: &#8220;The owner has declined to do the works, citing a lack of funds and that the cost of the works is disproportionate relative to the heritage significance of the Kirkgate properties as the reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks were held over a sale of 83 to 88-99 Kirkgate to the council, but the owner disputed a valuation of the properties, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a last resort, council bosses said they could potentially use compulsory purchase powers on the buildings &#8220;with a view to them being fully restored and brought back into meaningful long-term use&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said the buildings posed no risk to public safety after nearby businesses complained of the impact on their trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The building&#8217;s owner has been contacted by the BBC for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December, the council served an urgent works notice on the owner of the buildings. It meant the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153789556744646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400963","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=400963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}