{"id":43491,"date":"2025-07-15T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43491"},"modified":"2025-07-13T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:17:24","slug":"kicking-restoration-of-parliament-down-the-road-risks-disaster-authorities-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43491","title":{"rendered":"Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted \u2018a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse\u2019 unless action is taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Independent<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A full restoration of Parliament is being \u2018kicked down the road\u2019 risking a major disaster, it has been warned\u2026 highlighted \u2018a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse\u2019 unless urgent action was taken\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three options are currently being developed..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lords senior deputy speaker Lord Gardiner of Kimble told peers on Wednesday: \u2018Subject to those decisions, any significant decant would not begin in this Parliament,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord Gardiner said a recent survey showed a majority of the public \u2018supported the preserving of the building for future generations\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/parliament-notre-dame-mps-houses-of-parliament-commons-b2776917.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted \u2018a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse\u2019 unless action is taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,18,23,9,29,197,199,22],"class_list":["post-43491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-parliament","tag-restoration","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491","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=43491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43492,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491\/revisions\/43492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}