{"id":20598,"date":"2018-10-26T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:55:52","slug":"council-takes-over-denbighs-north-wales-hospital-via-a-general-vesting-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20598","title":{"rendered":"Council takes over Denbigh&#8217;s North Wales Hospital via a \u2018general vesting declaration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBC_Wales_website_261018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20599\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BBC_Wales_website_261018.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a>A council has taken ownership of a derelict Victorian hospital via a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/acquisition-of-land-by-general-vesting-declaration\/practice-guide-54-acquisition-of-land-by-general-vesting-declaration-under-the-compulsory-purchase-vesting-declarations-act-1981\">general vesting declaration<\/a>\u2019, five years after a dispute about the site&#8217;s future got under way.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News reports:<\/p>\n<p>Denbighshire County Council began its bid to purchase Denbigh&#8217;s sprawling North Wales Hospital in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital site has been the scene of numerous fires and acts of vandalism since it closed in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the county council said: An historic milestone has been reached.<\/p>\n<p>It said 28 days had passed without appeal since it served notice on owners Freemont (Denbigh) Ltd, so the council was now the new owner\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 In 2011, Denbighshire council carried out \u00a31m of emergency safety work, then two years later the authority voted to initiate a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for the hospital and a High Court appeal by Freemont failed.<\/p>\n<p>Later that year the order was rubber-stamped by the Welsh Government.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the council said the takeover process had finally been completed after it issued the former owners with a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/acquisition-of-land-by-general-vesting-declaration\/practice-guide-54-acquisition-of-land-by-general-vesting-declaration-under-the-compulsory-purchase-vesting-declarations-act-1981\">general vesting declaration<\/a>\u2019 which was unchallenged, giving the authority site ownership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-45839321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A council has taken ownership of a derelict Victorian hospital via a \u2018general vesting declaration\u2019, five years after a dispute about the site&#8217;s future got under way.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}