{"id":40935,"date":"2024-09-10T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40935"},"modified":"2024-09-10T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:24:04","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-fresh-plans-to-demolish-historic-hillhead-baptist-church-building-glasgow-for-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40935","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Fresh plans to demolish historic Hillhead Baptist Church building Glasgow for flats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2b\/Hillhead_Baptist_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5194809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hillhead_Baptist_Church_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_5194809_Thomas_Nugent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40936\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6><em>image for illustration:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2b\/Hillhead_Baptist_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5194809.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillhead Baptist Church<\/a> by Thomas Nugent, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n\n<h3>Official plans have been submitted to demolish former Hillhead Baptist Church building, a historic Glasgow church, and build flats in its place, reports <em>The Glasgow Times.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Glasgow Times<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The former Hillhead Baptist Church building could be pulled to the ground and replaced by 32 homes if planning permission is granted. A bid to repurpose the structure has been ongoing for several years&#8230; In March this year, however, the applicant announced that despite this early plan, the demolition of the entire building is \u2018unavoidable\u2019 due to the quick deterioration of the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The roof of the main building has already been removed to prevent its collapse\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/24556692.fresh-plans-demolish-historic-glasgow-church-flats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration:\u00a0Hillhead Baptist Church by Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Official plans have been submitted to demolish former Hillhead Baptist Church building, a historic Glasgow church, and build flats in its place, reports The Glasgow Times.<\/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-40935","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\/40935","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=40935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40937,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935\/revisions\/40937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}