{"id":42989,"date":"2025-05-20T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42989"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:14:39","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-southend-council-pledge-to-force-kursaal-owners-to-maintain-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42989","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Southend Council pledge to force Kursaal owners to maintain building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Southend Council has pledged to use \u2018every tool in the toolbox\u2019 to take legal action against the owners of the Kursaal\u2019s lease if urgent repairs are not carried out, reports <em>The Echo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Echo<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council is aiming to set aside \u00a330,000 this year to employ a \u2018dilapidations buildings expert\u2019 to painstakingly examine deterioration in the Grade II listed building.&nbsp; Once identified, London-based property group AEW\u2026 must not allow the building to fall into disrepair\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Tony Cox, leader of the Reform Group, said: \u2018\u2026 If they are in breach of the lease we should be taking action against them, not just notice to repair the building\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Daniel Cowan, leader of the council, said: \u2018We need to see what the experts say and once we have the details we then need to take legal advice on what is the appropriate next stage\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 It has to be handled in a careful and proper way and enforced through the lease contract. We want to be clear we are taking this seriously.\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/25053996.southend-council-pledge-force-kursaal-owners-maintain-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southend Council has pledged to use \u2018every tool in the toolbox\u2019 to take legal action against the owners of the Kursaal\u2019s lease if urgent repairs are not carried out, reports The Echo.<\/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":[6,18,23,62,29,172,221],"class_list":["post-42989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-funding","tag-heritage","tag-local-government","tag-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989","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=42989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42990,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989\/revisions\/42990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}