{"id":89453,"date":"2025-05-10T07:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89453\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:09:31","slug":"northern-ireland-listed-buildings-nis-irreplaceable-built-heritage-is-crumbling-at-an-alarming-rate-with-a-broken-system-hurting-both-owners-and-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89453\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland listed buildings: NI\u2019s irreplaceable built heritage is crumbling at an alarming rate, with a broken system hurting both owners and buildings"},"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\">Stormont is listing buildings but won&#8217;t give money to repair them, so they&#8217;re collapsing and an accelerating rate. Yet in the Republic, vast sums are being spent on retaining priceless built heritage\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"After their building was listed by Stormont, the congregation of All Saints Church are preparing to leave their home since Victorian times. Peter Morrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sam McBride (41).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)\">After their building was listed by Stormont, the congregation of All Saints Church are preparing to leave their home since Victorian times. Peter Morrison<\/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)\">Imagine a government official turning up at your door with a legal order compelling you not to make basic alterations to your property such as replacing the windows and forcing you to pay astronomically more for the building you own.<\/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)\">That\u2019s what happened to a Church of Ireland cleric last year, and now his congregation is preparing to move out of the building where they\u2019ve worshipped since Victorian times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stormont is listing buildings but won&#8217;t give money to repair them, so they&#8217;re collapsing and an accelerating rate.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,13744,17675,21747,42497,1144,17674,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-89453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-catholic-church","10":"tag-church-of-ireland","11":"tag-department-for-communities","12":"tag-gordon-lyons","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-presbyterian-church","15":"tag-sam-mcbride","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114482287361488479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453","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=89453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}