{"id":607936,"date":"2025-12-02T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/607936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:36:21","slug":"plans-to-demolish-edinburgh-flat-block-put-on-hold-after-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/607936\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to demolish Edinburgh flat block put on hold after protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour councillor and housing convener, Tim Pogson, said the building posed &#8220;significant physical risks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But protesters who disrupted the meeting said the issues had been raised with the council on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They argued that repairs should have been carried out earlier, before the building was allowed to fall into disrepair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee was also told that some tenants had learned about the demolition plans in the press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillors backed a combined SNP, Green and Liberal Democrat position to have officers explore several issues raised about the demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Conservative motion which would have supported the position of officers to move ahead with demolition of the building, while supporting owners of flats inside the block, was defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour councillor and housing convener, Tim Pogson, said the building posed &#8220;significant physical risks&#8221;. But protesters who disrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-607936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115651424130556246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607936","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=607936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}