{"id":40243,"date":"2024-06-25T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40243"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:51:17","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-council-doorstep-council-set-to-close-obsolete-kendal-county-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40243","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (Council) doorstep: Council set to close &#8216;obsolete&#8217; Kendal County Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/50\/County_Hall%2C_Kendal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40244\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/County_Hall_Kendal_Richard_kelly_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Westmorland and Furness Council is moving services from Kendal\u2019s County Hall after report indicated it needed \u00a37.4m in repairs, reports BBC News.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration:<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/50\/County_Hall%2C_Kendal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> County Hall<\/a>, Kendal by Richard Kelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY 4.0,<\/a>\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>An inspection found Kendal&#8217;s County Hall to be \u2018physically, functionally, environmentally and economically obsolete\u2019.\u00a0 The council is set to move its services from its historic County Hall after a report said it needed \u00a37.4m in repairs\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The hall was the headquarters of the former Westmorland County Council from 1939 to 1974 and also used by Cumbria County Council until a shake-up of local government in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6ppww3xvgvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westmorland and Furness Council is moving services from Kendal\u2019s County Hall after report indicated it needed \u00a37.4m in repairs, reports BBC News. image for illustration: County Hall, Kendal by Richard Kelly, CC BY 4.0,\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40245,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243\/revisions\/40245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}